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The vanishing 
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Setting limits for 
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Wearable archives of the 
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Labor plank allows for Palestinian state 


By SARAH HOWG 

The Labor Party convention yesterday 
adopted a controversial platform plank 
recognizing the Palestinian people’s 
right to self-determination in a state 
with limited sovereignty. This came 
after frontrunning leadership candidate 
MK Ehud Barak dropped his opposi- 
tion. 

The convention also named Histadrut 
chairman MK Amir Peretz as the party’s 
candidate for another term and geared 
up for the election of a new secretary- 


general, after MK Nissim Zvilli formal- 
ly announced he is stepping down. 
Although the convention's actual 


Sneh, Ben-Ami reject Beffin 
appeal to chop out, Page 3 


business included some potentially 
explosive ideological issues, they were 
swiftly and smoothly disposed off, with 


little interest shown by delegates after 
the excitement of die Peres-Barak 
showdown on Tuesday. 

Thus the convention approved a plank 
in which Labor “recognizes the right of 
the Palestinian people to self determina- 
tion’' and “does not rule out die possi- 
bility of a Palestinian state." Such a 
state, according to party blueprint, 
would have limited sovereignty, be 
demilitarized, will be prevented from 
forming militaiy alliances with other 
slates, and its air space would be open 
to the Israel Air Force. 


When the plank first came up last 
month before the party political com- 
mittee, headed by leadership candidate 
Shlomo Ben-Ami, Barak opposed it, 
arguing there is no need for Israel to 
decide for the Palestinians. 

But Barak was approached by two of 
his supporters, MKs Uzi Baram and 
Yael Dayan, who talked him into with- 
drawing his objections. Ben-Ami was 
delighted, saying, "It is high time that 
Labor stopped avoiding reality." 

Leadership hopeful MK Yossi Beilin 
described this as “a very real victory for 


me and my colleagues, who favored the 
idea of a Palestinian slate long ago. 1 am 
glad Barak cleared the obstacles he 
sought to place before this change, but 
the man [Barak] who refused to vote for 
Oslo 2, and who railed against the gov- 
ernment for not building more at Har 
Homa is not part of my ideological 
world." 

The convention also adopted a plank 
calling for “increased efforts to bolster 
the settlements on the Golan, pending 
an agreement with Syria." 

The Likud reacted to the Palestinian state 


plank last night by charging that “Labor is 
divesting itself of all its principles and is 
offering the Land of Israel to the lowest 
bidder in an end of season sale." 

The convention also formalized the 
merger between the breakaway Ram 
Histadrut faction and the Labor faction. 
Ram’s Peretz will be Labor's candidate 
for another term as Histadrut chairman, 
at the head of a joint Labor-Ram ticket 
He will seek to attract other political 
factions. 

Continued on Page 2 


Court delays 
decision on four 
Bar-On petitions 



ByBATSHEVATSUR 

The High Coun of Justice has 
put on hold its decisions on four 
petitions to indict Prime Minister 
Binyamin Netanyahu and Justice 
Minister Tzahi Hanegbi, to 
remove Hanegbi from office, and 
to suspend Avigdor Liefcerraan, 
director-general of the Prime 
Minister's Office. 


Sha^s rush on the 
courthouse, Page 3 


The court announced this last 
night following a marathon 13- 
hour session. It did not state when 
it would give its rulings. 

Earlier the court had rejected 
four other petitions submitted fol- 
lowing the state attorney’s report 
on the Bar-On Affair. They were 


filed by Meretz MK Yossi Sarid, 
Labor MK Ophir Pines, by Labor 
MKs Yossi Beilin and Yona 
Yahav, and by the Movement for 
Quality Government and private 
citizens. Another petition filed by 
a private citizen was withdrawn. 

The five-person bench, headed 
by Deputy President Shlomo 
Levin, convened at 8 a.m. to hear 
petitions aimed at proving that 
Attorney-General Elyakim 
Rubinstein’s decision not to pros- 
ecute Netanyahu and Hanegbi for 
their roles in the affair was not 
reasonable. 

The debate centered around 
Netanyahu's degree of involve- 
ment in an alleged deal to appoint 
Roni Bar-On as attorney-general 
in order to win a plea bargain for 
Shas leader MK Ajyeh Deri in his 
fraud and bribery trial. 

It is not reasonable to say that 
"the prime minister did not 
absorb” information about a deal, 
as the report states, the petitioners 


argued. If there is no prima facie 
evidence against Netanyahu, it 
must be because Rubinstein 
applied too high a “threshold” to 
determine whether there was such 
evidence. 

At one point Justice Dalia 
Domer asked the state's represen- 
tative: “In the decision-making 
process, did you apply different 
standards for the prime minister 
because he is a VIP?" 

“Absolutely not,” replied Shai 
Nitzan of the State Attorney’s 
Office. “The considerations were 
based solely on the evidence.” 

The court rejected a petition 
calling for the publication of the 
minority opinion in the state 
attorney’s team. The dissenting 
minority had called for indict- 
ments against Netanyahu and 
Hanegbi. 

It also threw out petitions to 
order the publication of the police 
report on its investigation of the 
affair and the setting up of a pub- 



Labor MK Ophir Pines (right) argues with a Shas supporter at the Supreme Court building yesterday. 


(Brian Hendler) 


lie commission of inquiry. 

“What would a commission of 
inquiry achieve?" asked Justice 
Eliezer Goldberg when the issue 
was raised. 


“Tbe public has the right to full 
information about this affair. The 
police only investigated the crim- 
inal aspects, but it is not its duty 
to look into the public aspects of 


the affair," argued attorney not learned from the experience. 

Avigdor Feldman on behalf of The breakdown has not been 

petitioner Sarid. “There was a examined." 

failure of the system. The prime p 

minister acted cynically and has commued on Page 2 


Squabble over Swiss fund 
led to Wiesel’s refusal to join 


Ne’eman verdict due today 


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By ELLI WOW.GELERHTER 

Conflict over the makeup of the 
executive board of the Swiss com- 
pensation fund for Holocaust sur- 
vivors was a main reason Nobel 
laureate Elie Wiesel refused to 
accept a position on the commis- 
sion. He repeated Tuesday in an 
interview with The Jerusalem 
Post that he also did not feel com- 
fortable about determining how to 
distribute the money. 


‘New Ybrtc Times*: Freeze 
Swiss assets, Page 12 


“The Swiss decided from the 
very beginning that they needed 
to be the majority (on the seven - 
man committee],” Wiesel said. 

“Why? Because it’s Swiss 
money. I would have said, ‘Wait 
a second - here the recipient is 
more important than the giver 
because it's a moral question, not 



Elie Wiesel 


(Bryan McBamey) 


Warsaw Ghetto? How can I stand 


discussions over what his role 
would be. 

“The Swiss ■ minister sent me 
letters - so laudatory - but I 
heard they weren't so enthusias- 
tic, because they knew with me, I 
have a way of standing up, I’m 
not afraid of governments. 

“They had it in their ordinance 
that [the head of the fund] must be 
a Swiss citizen. Okay. I don’t need 
titles. But the World Jewish 
Congress wanted the title. First 
they wanted me to be president. 
Switzerland said no, the president 
must be Swiss. So they began 
speaking about titles, which made 
.the whole thing silly. It's not a 
matter of titles. They appointed 
me international chairman, and the 
Swiss foreign minister said, 
‘Wiesel can have no special pow- 
ers.’ I was just the seal of 
approval. 

“The World Jewish Congress 
felt that for their reasons, since 
they had only three (people on 
the executive board] versus four 
Swiss, that they wanted me. So I 
said, ‘Let me see what they 
write.’ But when 1 got the letter, I 


and sick and destitute, and they 
should have dignity. The main 
thing is they shouldn't feel like 
beggars." 

Wiesel said that had he 
remained on the fund, he would 
have called for establishing “pro- 
grams for old-age homes; give 
medical insurance to those who 
have none; and give more money 
to (hose who need it in Eastern 
Europe, or to organizations here 
like AMCHA. It’s going to be 
such a problem. It's not for me." 

A full interview with Wiesel will 
appear tomorrow. 


By RAIHE MARCUS 

Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court 
Judge Dan Arbel will today hand 
down his verdict in the trial of for- 
mer justice minister Ya’acov 
Ne’eman for perjury and obstruc- 
tion of justice. 

Ne'eman resigned from bis 
post after journalist Yoav Yitzhak 
petitioned the High Court 
protesting his appointment. This 
prompted police to launch an 
investigation. 

Ne'eman was charged with 
deliberately giving false evidence 
in the trial of MK Aiyeh Deri and 
with encouraging a prosecution 
witness, Martin Brown, to give 
false evidence. 


Ne'eman claimed he had simply 
made a mistake in his testimony, 
which he corrected later. 
However, the prosecution argued 
that Ne'eman corrected his state- 
ments to “cover his tracks." 


Arbel asked if it were possible 
that Ne’eman made a legitimate 
mistake, but the prosecution 
insisted he had "made many mis- 
takes” and that there was criminal 
intent 


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fore we should have said, ‘We 
need a majority, that if it should 
; come to certain points we should 
' have the majority.’ 

“Bui even so. I didn't want it 
• for a very simple reason: How do 
you distribute monies? Am I 
going to say that someone who 
was two months in Birkenau is 
more important than someone 
who spent six months in the 



more money.’ Can you quantify 
suffering?” 

The head of the fund. Roll 
Bloch, a Jewish leader in 
Switzerland, charged _ on 
Saturday that Wiesel’s declining 
to serve on the executive board 
would delay payments to sur- 
vivors. , . . 

But Wiesel countered that the 
fund, which was formed in 
February, only sent him an offi- 
cial letter spelling out his posi- 
tion at the beginning of this 
month, and that he answered 


Wiesel said there is already dis- 
agreement over how the fund, 
which eventually could total $7 
billion, should’ be distributed. 
One group, he said, had decided 
that every survivor, some 
300,000 here and in Eastern 
Europe, should each receive 
$1 80, “with a note for those who 
don’t need it to give it back. Can 
you imagine?” 

He admitted that the matter of 
how to distribute the money is 
“not an easy situation," but that 
“the main thing is not to humili- 


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INAUGURATION OF THE 
CHAIR FOR SWISS-ISRAELI 
CULTURAL COOPERATION 

In the presence of 
HJE. Pierre Monod 
The Ambassador of Switzerland 

Lecture; 

Professor Yosef Corny 

Head, The Chaim Weizmann Institute for Research on Zionism 

"In Basel I Founded the Jewish State* 

The Future of Israel-Diaspora Relations 

on Tuesday, 20 May 1997, at 10:15 a.ra. 
at the Plenary Hall, Marcelle Gordon University Club 
Tel Aviv University Campus, Raraat Aviv 

The public is invited 


» Bar-IIan University 

Faculty of Jewish Studies 
Department of Land of Israel Studies 
Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies 

congratulates 

Prof. Elie Wiesel 

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 
recipient of the 

1997 Guardian of Zion Award 

granted by the 

Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies 
at Bar-llan University 

Award ceremony this evening, May 15, 1997 (8 fyyar 5757) 
at 7:00 p.m. at the Tower of David in Jerusalem 

in the presence of: 

Mr. Zevulun Hammer 

The Minister of Education and Culture , 

Rabbi Yisrael Mefr Lau ! 

Chief Rabbi of Israel 

Ingeborg and Ira Rennert 
New York 

Prof. Wiesel will deliver the inaugural 
Distinguished Rennert Lecture on: 
'Jerusalem - Israel’s Link with the Diaspora” 
Admittance by Invitation only 










Thursday, May 1 5, 1 997 The Jerusalem Post 



in brief 



Call for Knesset debate on Rabin documentary 

Meretz faction chairman Ran Cohen, who heads the Knesset State 
Control Committee, is calling for a Knesset discussion on the tele- 
vision documentary The Road To Rabin Square. Hie film, screened 
Tuesday on Channel 2, portrayed the incitement which preceded the 
assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. 

Cohen aud the events leading to the assassination have never 
been investigated, except for security-related issues. He said the 
documentary was the first serious attempt to deal with the public 
aspects surrounding the assassination and as such could not be 
ignored. Liat Collins 

Porat PA operating prate TV station 

The Palestinian Authority is operating a pirate television sta- 
tion from the Intercontinental Hotel in eastern Jerusalem, 
according to National Religious Party 
Faction Chairman Hanan Porat He 
said yesterday that the operation of 
the station on UHF 21 is just one vio- 
lation on a Communications Ministry 
list of Palestinian violations of the 
Oslo accords. Porat met yesterday 
with Attorney General Elyakim 
Rubinstein and State Attorney Edna 
Arbel, who promised to investigate 
the matter. 

In the morning, Porat filed a police 
complaint against PA Chairman Yasser 
Arafat’s advisor Ahmed Tibi for saying Hanan Porat 
last week that someone who sells land to 
Jews has sold his soul to the devil. Porat 
noted that the day after Tibi spoke on Israel Radio, land dealer 
Farid Bashiti was murdered. Liat Collins 

Mai drowns off Haifa 

A man in his 60s drowned yesterday afternoon off Haifa's 
Sbemen Beach. He had been swimming with some friends. A 
Magen David Adorn crew came to the scene, but could not 
revive him. trim 

Civil Guard volunteer shot and wounded 

A Civil Guard volunteer. 54, from Tira, was shot and 
wounded from a passing car at the Tira-Taibe junction yester- 
day. He was reported in serious condition at Meir Hospital in 
Kfar Sava, after being shot at point-blank range in the 
abdomen, the arm. and both legs. Itim 

Education seminar set for Basel 

Jewish educators from Israel and Europe will meet in Basel 
from May 1 8 to 20 in die 10th European Seminar for Jewish 
Education, sponsored by the Jewish Agency's Joint Education 
Authority. 

The gathering is being held in Basel as one of die first events 
marking 100 years since the First Zionist Congress met in that 
city. 

Delegations are expected from both larger Jewish communi- 
ties, like England and France, and smaller ones such as 
Romania, Hungary, and Ttirkey. 

There are to be sessions in the hall of die Fust Zionist 
Congress, and workshops on topics ranging from prayer to die 
Internet Jerusalem Post Staff 



The unveiling ceremony, on the shloshim of the 

sixth President of the State of Israel 

CHAIM HERZOG 

will take place on Sunday, May 18, 1997 
(11 lyar 5757) at 3 p.m., at the gravesite of the 
nation's great, Mount Herzl, Jerusalem. 

The public is requested to arrive by 2:40 p.m. 


We sadly announce the death of our beloved 
mother, grandmother and great-grandmother 

GEN IA K. LUDWIN (n£e Glazed 

(V/ilna, South Africa, Canada) 

who passed away in Canada on May 7, 1997. 

Deeply mourned by: 

Her children, Haia and Joe Shapiro, Ra’anana 

Samuel and Vivienne Ludwin, Canada 
Tamar and Martin Fransman, Scotland 
David and Laura Ludwin, Canada 
Her grandchildren, Dorrit and Yachin Yarchi 
Jonathan and Tzippy Shapiro 
Yair, Yael, Moshe, Ariela Shapiro 
Derek, Raymond Ludwin 
Judith, Karen, Jonathan Fransman 
Adrian, Daniel, liana Ludwin 
Her great-grandchildren, Daniels, Alona Yarchi 
Tomer Shapiro 

Shiva at 69 Rehov Yehuda Halevi, Ra'anana (09-7716876) 


Mordechai, Erekat meet 


By JON MANUEL 


Israeli and Palestinian negotia- 
tors were meeting last night 
under US auspices to seek a way 
out of the peace talks deadlock. 

Palestinian Authority spokes- 
men said they did not consider 
the meeting with US special 
envoy Dennis Ross at the 
Herzl iya home of US 
Ambassador Martin Indyk to be 
negotiations, but rather an oppor- 
tunity to hear US suggestions. 

Defense Minister Yitzhak 
Mordechai, heading the Israeli 
team, arrived an hour after the 
scheduled start of talks. Prime 
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s 
adviser, attorney Yitzhak 
Moicho, also attended. 

The Palestinian delegation was 
headed by Saeb Erekat, the chief 
Hebron negotiator. Erekat hosted 
Ross in his hometown of Jericho 
yesterday, where the two dis- 
cussed their positions prior to last 
night's three-way meeting. 

Nabil Abu Rudeineh. an advis- 
er to PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, 
has said that freezing construc- 
tion on the controversial Har 
Homa project in southeast 
Jerusalem, across the Green 
Line, is basic to getting talks 
moving again. 

In Ramallah yesterday, Arafat 
told a donors' conference that 
the negotiations are stuck 
because of land expropriation. 
He attacked Prime Minister 
Binyamin Netanyahu's reported 
plan of giving Palestinians con- 
trol over 40 percent of the West 
Bank as insufficient to ensure 
territorial continuity along the 
Jordan River. 

He also said the Palestinian 
economy is going from bad to 
worse, in marked contrast to 
more optimistic comments by 
Shaath a day earlier. 

Arafat said there is 62% unem- 
ployment in Gaza and 48% 
unemployment in the West Bank, 
that closures are costing the PA 
$7 million a day, produce is being 
held up at checkpoints, and quar- 
ries have been closed between 



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Norway’s Foreign Minister Bjorn GodaJ (left) and Foreign Minister David Levy bold a press conference outside the Foreign Ministry 
yesterday. (Brim HenUn) 


Jerusalem and Ramallah costing 
many jobs. 

Foreign Ministry official Han 
Baruch refuted the charges, 
quoting the Palestinian Bureau 
of Statistics concerning unem- 
ployment, which be put at 25% 
in Gaza and 17% in the West 
Bank. 

He calculated the loss to the 
Palestinian economy of 50,000 
workers earning $40 a day in 
Israel at $2 million day. He 


denied any quarries had been 
closed and said that up to 800 
trucks a week leave Gaza, and 
500 cross to Jordan with no 
overnight holdups. 

Barncb noted that this 
improvement had taken place 
despite the lack of negotiations, 
the government coordinator’s 
spokesman said. 

Jordan appeared yesterday to be 
taking a more positive line to the 
peace talks. The pro-Hussein Al- 


Dustor noted in an editorial that 
“The possibility of making 
progress on die Palestinian track 
seems better today than two 
months ago, unless the 
Netanyahu government does 
something unpredictable.** 

Syria has also said it is interest- 
ed in resuming bilateral talks, 
Norway’s Foreign Minister Bjom 
Godal told Foreign Minister 
David Levy yesterday, after arriv- 
ing from Damascus. 


(Brin Heafler) 

“I was reassured by the Syrian , 
president and foreign minister that *' 
they take interest in die furthering 
of die peace process,” Godal told 
reporters. “They expressed posi- 
tive interest on the revival of the 
Syria-Lebanon track _ and this 
was the message that they wanted 
to convey to me.” 

In response. Levy said, “I say 
again. I am ready to meet the for- 
eign minister of Syria anywhere, 
any time." 


Settlement leaders vow no more 
cooperation if demolition continues 


By — ABGOT D0PKEWTCH and AHEH (PSULUVAM 

In meetings with OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. 
Uzi Dayan and Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai 
yesterday, settlement leaders stressed that there 
would be no further cooperation if demolition of 
houses in settlements continues. 

According to Yehiel Leiter, of the Council of 
Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, 
the leaders raised their concern over the fact that 
Dayan has die authority to decide when building in 
settlements can be carried our after the actual permits 
have been granted by Mordechai. 

“It is no secret that he isn’t exactly sympathetic 
toward the community in Hebron and settlements 
such as Yitzhar, near Nablus," Leiter said. 

In addition the leaders raised die issue confiscation 
of weapons from settlers. 

Dayan told the sealers that he had to abide by the 
law. which stipulates that if someone is being inves- 
tigated by police, he is not allowed to cany a weapon. 

Mordechai told the settlers he wants to strengthen 
existing settlements and briefed them on the actions 
taken by the defense establishment to foil terror and 
give a reasonable level of security to residents of 
Judea and Samaria. 

He stressed that the policy of the government is lo 
strengthen existing settlements, but at (he same time 


LABOR 

Continued from Page 1 


to keep the peace and deal with lawbreakers, no mat- 
ter who they may be. 

"I don’t accept talk as if there are people in this 
country who want peace and people who don’t want 
peace. We all want peace, but everyone has their own 
opinion about what peace is," Mordechai said, adding 
that dialogue needs to be protected and maintained. 

Also participating in the meeting were Chief of 
General Staff Lt-Gen. Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Dayan, 
and Eli Cohen, Mordechai ’s adviser on settlement. 

Mordechai also briefed the settlers on his talks with 
special US mediator Dennis Ross, as well as his meet- 
ings with European and Egyptian representatives. 

Defense officials said the meeting was held in a 
“very good atmosphere." 

Leiter said the settlers stressed the need to speed up 
the process of expanding existing settlements to 
maintain security. - 

“Yitzhar for example can find itself totally isolated 
if it isn't allowed to build on the [nearby] hilltop." he 
said, adding: “If we don’t wake up now, the 
Palestinian Authority will build there instead, causing 
a threat to the settlement 

“There are many settlements with hilltops nearby or 
overlooking them that will cause a severe security 
problem if they aren't permitted to build. We told 
Mordechai that if he doesn't want us to bulldoze 
roads to these hilltops, he had better act fast.” 


COURT 

Continued fro m Page 1 


WHO resolution 
condemns Har Homa 
construction 


The Gesher faction, led by 
Foreign Minister David Levy, 
was mentioned by Peretz as one 
of his targets. No mention was 
made of the political future, if 
any, of the present Labor 
Histadnit faction chief, Haim 
Haberfeld, who is Peretz 's bitter 
foe. 

Zvilli announced tersely that he 
will be quitting as secretary-gen- 
eral and that immediately after 
the June 3 leadership primary, the 
contest would begin for the post 
he is vacating. Zvilli left the 
impression that he will be leav- 
ing the political arena altogether. 
He and other Peres supporters 
fear they have few political 
prospects, because they expect 
Barak to launch a vendetta 
against them, despire his assur- 
ances to the contrary. 


Our dear 

THERESE HELLER 

The funeral will take place today, Thursday, May 15, 1997, at 11 am., at 
the Gordon Cemetery, Shikun Hamizrah, Rishon Lezion. 

We shall meet at the cemetery gate. 

Shiva at the home of her daughter, Ruth Riegler, 30 Gordon, Rishon Lezion. 

Mourners: 

Ruth and Kurt Riegler 
Dafna and Doron Danai 
The Grandchildren 


Uzi Fogelman, ’ head of the 
High Court Division in the Slate 
Attorney ’s Office, replied: “The 
situation is that there is no public 
aspect... The decision-making 
process has not yet been com- 
pleted with regard to some [of 
those concerned]." He was 
apparently referring ro the Deri 
case and to the completion of the 
investigation into Lieberman's 
activities. 

Arguing in favor of the publi- 
cation of the police report and 
minority opinion, the petitioners 
suggested: “If some of the mate- 
rial could interfere with the 
[ongoing] investigation, then 
why not publish those parts 
which do not?” ■ 

Yet another petition - objecting 
to the decision to indict Deri - 
was withdrawn and the court 
ordered the petitioner, attorney 
Dan Kochavi of Rehovot. to pay 
costs. Kochavi had complained 
that “the entire Deri affair is 
based on ethnic discrimination... 
This is an Ashkenazi court," he 
shouted at the justices. 

“We judge on the basis of legal 
evidence,” explained Levin. 

In his petition. Kochavi stated 
that “[Court President Aharon] 
Barak and his wife are judges 
and their children are lawyers, 
but they are forcing their 
Yemenite housekeeper to remain 
in her lowly position." 

To this, the prosecution 
responded that the petition's lan- 
guage was not fit to be brought 
before the court. 


Channel 1 last night reported it 
had obtained details of the 
minority opinion. It said that 
attorney Talya S as son. who had 
been die coordinator between the 
State Attorney’s Office and the 
police during the investigation, 
had been the one to press for 
indictments. She was later joined 
by Deputy State Attorney 
Yehoshua Reznick and Jerusalem 
District Attorney Moshe Lador, 
and together they formulated a 
report recommending Netanyahu 
be indicted for breach of trust 

State Attorney Edna Aibel was 
tom between accepting and 
rejecting the idea of an indict- 
ment. the TV said. When her 
report with Rubinstein’s endorse- 
ment was released, they had 
expected a totally different reac- 
tion from Netanyahu, the TV 
said. 

“The legal experts felt that the 
prime minister had completely 
missed the significance of (he 
report," Channel 1 said. 


1 ARRIVALS J 

Arrivals for the Annual Meeting of the 
Board Of Govemon of Tel Aviv University. 
From Argentina: Diana Casa be. From Aus- 
tralia: Clara & Jack Lamer. Pram Austria: Dr. 
(Horn HetU & Marian Genner, From Brazil: 
A teas A Michael Perlman, Miriam A Charics 
Tawil, From Canada: Stephanie & David 
Azieli, Susan A Mania Goldberg. Leah 
Goldberg. Paula A Ira Scteeter. Jennifer 
Schecier. From France; Lorti Siltcran. From 
Germany: Lola FischeL David Scharf. From 
Spain: Asirid A Henri Misrahi. from The 
United Sutes: Non? & Alan Aufzien. Pau- 
line Nunaroff, Judith Rtklij. Leo SrectJn). 
Carol A Melvin Taub for the Inauguration 
of the Carol and Melvin S. Taub Chair in 
Applied Medical Physics. Robert Topchik. 
From Venezuela: Dr. Lia MerenfekL 


By JUDY SIEGEL 

The World Health Oiganization’s 
50th annual assembly yesterday 
passed a resolution, proposed 
largely by Moslem states, that was 
sharply critical of Israel regarding 
its “settlement in die Palestinian 
territory, and especially in Jabal 
Abu Ghneim [Har Homa] in occu- 
pied East Jerusalem." 

The resolution was passed on the 
last day of the assembly by 93 
countries and opposed by only 
Israel, die US, Palau and Papua 
New Guinea, with four abstaining. 

Health Minister Yehoshua 
Matza, who returned to Jerusalem 
after a week's participation in the 
assembly but before die resolution 
was voted on, said yesterday that 
it was a shame that the members 
mixed politics with medical mat- 
ters. He had asked Dr. Fathi 
Arafat, head of the Palestinian 
Red Crescent Society and brother 
of Palestinian Authority Chairman 
Yasser Arafat, to moderate the 
anti-Israel proposals at the gather- 
ing, but pressures from militant 
Arab and Moslem countries made 
this difficulL 


In the end, only minor changes 
were made, including a change 
from “occupied Arab Jerusalem" to 
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The steady stream of tourists 
shuffling through the Supreme 
Court's wide, marble halls gave 
file court a “business as usual" air 
yesterday. But the short-haired, 
thick-armed riot police sirring 0 n 
’ hardwood benches m from of Hall 
3, watching. who went in and who 
■ came out, was a sure indicator that 
• .“something was up.” 

Bar-On is what was up. After the 
media, police, andatiorney-gener- 
al all had their shot at the messy 

• Bar-On Affair, the court finally got 
it$ nun. The police were oc hand 

• to make sure no one tried to inter- 
;.fere. . 

?.■ The specter of interference, in 
,clhe form of overzealoos Shas sup- 
-Jjwiters, is not some far-fetched, 
theoretical dilemma. Tuesday 
v^ttigbt, some 250 supporters of 
vAryeh Deri rushed the locked 
entrance .of the courthouse in 
protest. A huge white-on-black 
’ headline, in one of the dailies 
^creamed: "The night the Supreme 
;■ Gtaat was almost conquered.” 


The riot police both inside and 
outside die building showed the 
lesson had been learned. 

Tuesday night’s protest gave 
proof that the so-called “ethnic 
issue” let out of the proverbial bot- 
tle is no wisp of a genie, but rather 
a bucking bronco dial - with enor- 
mous destructive capability - 
kicks in all directions. 

The rush on the courthouse 
came just days after stones were 
thrown at policemen standing at 
attention for the siren marking 
Remembrance Day for the Fallen 
of Israel ’s Wars, which came just a 
few days after a pro-Deri demon- 
stration in Bnei Brak on Holocaust 
Heroes’ and Martyrs’ 
Remembrance Day. 

The country, once again, resem- 
bles a slaughterhouse for sacred 
cows. ' The rules of the game have 
been shattered," said Labor MK 
Ophir lines, one of the petitioners 
to the court, who spoke during a 
break in 'the day-long hearings. 

Tt did not surprise me,” Pines 
said of die Shas demonstration. T 
am not surprised by anything Shas 


does. They are anti-evetytiiing." 

Fines agreed with the hypothesis 
that those at Tuesday night's 
protest, as well as most of those at 
the occasional pro-Deri street 
demonstrations, are the party's 
activists, its elite, not the rank-and- 
file. “But if we don't stop it ax this 
level," be said, “we will be faced 
with hundreds and thousands who 
wiD eventually take to the streets.” 

Stopping “it,” he said, means 
arresting those responsible - 
which win inevitably pour more 
salt into the wounds. “No choice,” 
he said. 

* While Pines was speaking, a 
group of men in their 20$ and 30s, 
air force civilian employees tour- 
ing the court, gawked and then 
surrounded one of the personali- 
ties who attended the hearing. Not 
Meretz MK Yossi Sand, not high- 
profile attorney Avigdor Feldman, 
but Ayala Hasson, the Channel l 
reporter who broke the Bar-On 
story. 

Hasson provided the only buzz 
of electricity in the hall. The Shas 
demonstrators of the night before 


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§ Ka ha l ani: Protesters never entered building 


Internal Security Minister Avigdor Kahalani 
yesterday denied media reports that Shas protest- 
ers entered the Supreme Court, building on 
Tuesday, evening. 

/ Shas did not comply with the conditions of its 
permit for the protest, he added, and a much larg- 
er number than allowed showed up after the 
agreed-upon time. Despite that, they stayed with- 
in the permitted area and did not do anything that 
called for exceptional police action, Kahalani said. 
. Police were stationed opposite die Supreme 
Cotut at the time for which Shas had received a 
permit to demonstrate, Jerusalem police chief 


Cmdr. Yair Yitzhak! said. A half-hour latex, when 
the protesters failed to show up, most of the police 
left, leaving behind a small group as a deterrent, 
be said. 

Shortly afterwards, some 200 Shas supporters 
appeared, moved the barriers police had set up, 
and began their protest, said Yitzhalri, who beaded 
an investigation into the incident. 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has asked 
Kahalani to look into the incident, so that similar 
occurrences can be prevented. He condemned any 
actions that threaten or put pressure on judges, 
calling Tuesday's protest very grave. (Jtira) 


C’ttee urges action on behalf 
of Beduin education 


By AlffEH PEAK COHEN 

The Knesset Education 
Committee yesterday recom- 
mended that an intenninisterial 
committee be established to 
solve the educational problems 
•tof the country’s Beduin,- 

The committee was responding 
to the continuing strike in the 
educational system in the Beduin 
towns of Rahat and Ifel Sheva, 
which is entering its third week 
and has kept 14,000 pupils out of 
schooL The strike was launched 
to protest overcrowded schools 
and poor infrastructure. 

The committee also recom- 
mended building 300 classrooms 
in the Beduin community within 
flic next three years, and estab- 
lishing a special education track 
for the Bedain. 

Chairman Emanuel Zisstnann 
stud that the committee had con- 
ducted a tour of Beduin educa- 
tional facilities five months ago, 


and had passed on recommenda- 
tions to Education Minister 
Zevnlun Hammer, but “nothing 
has been done." 

Zisstnann said that “morally 
and publicly," he supports the 
strike, but suggested waiting 
until the end of the month to see 
if the Finance Ministry agrees to 
provide the funds necessary to 
meet the committee’s recommen- 
dations. 

MK Ruby Rivlin (Likud) said it 
was inconceivable for a cabinet 
minister to say on the eve of 
Remembrance Day for the Fallen 
of Israel’s Wars that the Beduin 
“axe full partners in the fate of 
Israel, and then the night after 
Independence Day, the Education 
Ministry leaves them in a situa- 
tion like that which existed here 
300 years ago. We must bridge 
the gap immediately, and this is 
the duty first and foremost of the 
Education Ministry." 

MK Taleb a-S&oaa (United 


Arab List) noted that “the strike 
began two weeks ago. Now ibe 
Finance Ministry is asking for 
two more weeks to give an 
answer. Why does it take a month 
to look into a problem that’s 
known to everyone?” 

Education Ministry Director- 
General Ben-Zion Dell said he 
had met with Finance Ministry 
officials last week and had 
demanded they find a way to 
build the needed classrooms. 
“All the nice plans, some of 
which are already being imple- 
mented in the field, can’t go 
ahead without the proper build- 
ings. The Finance Ministry 
undertook to give us an answer 
by the end of this month," be 
said. 

Meanwhile, Rivlin and 
Zissmann are to meet today with 
leaders of the striking junior lec- 
turers at most of the country’s 
universities in an effort to end 
that strike, which began Tuesday. 


Two soldiers moderately 
injured in accident 


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Two soldiers were moderately injured when an 
armored personnel carrier swerved out of its path and 
hit them. The accident happened yesterday while the 
troops were on operational duties in the security 
zone’s eastern sector. _ _ 

The two soldiers were treated at the scene and larer 
evacuated by helicopter to Haifa’s Rambam Hospital. 
The army is investigating the circumstances air- 
rounding the accident. 

Meanwhile, fiebting continued in the security zone, 
with Hizbullah gunmen firing at IDF troops on oper- 
ational duties in the zone’s western sector early yes- 
terday. 


At the same time, gunmen also opened fire with 
mortars at an IDF outpost nearby. There were no 
casualties in either of the incidents and IDF gunners 
returned fire. 

Reports from Lebanon said gunmen also fired mor- 
tals at the IDFs Dabsha position in the zone's eastern 
sector, again without causing any injuries or damage. 

News agency reports from Lebanon said a 
Hizbullah gunman was killed and another wou nded 
in the ensuing exchanges. There was no confirmation 
of the reports from any other sources. 

Yesterday evening, gunmen opened fire with mor- 
tars at South Lebanese Army outposts in the zone's 
eastern and western sectors. There were no casualties 
and IDF gunners returned fire. 


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police with little to do bat watch 
die people watch Hasson. 

Which is not to say there was no 
Shas presence. Three or four party 
activists were on band throughout 
the day, listening to the arguments, 
occasionally passing notes. 

“The Supreme Court is the last 
bastion of racism,” said Gabi 
Butbul, Shas’s representative on 
the board of the Israel 
Broadcasting Authority. “The very 
fact that one scat on the court is set 
aside for Sephardim is proof of 
this. One seat for Sephturdim, and 
another for a religious justice. And 
what if another Sephardi is quali- 
fied? They will say, ’Oops, your 
seat is already taken.’ " 

By its very makeup, Butbul said, 
the court is unable to understand 
what is bothering Shas supporters. 
The demonstration the night 
before, he said, was not a dramat- 
ic storming of the country’s seat of 
justice, but just the protesters’ 
attempt to let the justices know 
what is sitting so heavy on their 
bearts. 


Ramon may vie for 
Labor top spot later 


By SARAH BOTOC 

MK Haim Ramon dropped a 
bombshell into the Labor Party 
convention yesterday, when he 
announced that be may well chal- 
lenge the winner of the June 3 
leadership primary one year 
before the 2000 elections. 

Meanwhile, outgoing party 
leader Shimon Peres and Ehud 
Barak, bis likely successor; sought 
to lower the tone of their Tuesday 
confrontation, with Barak praising 
Peres and Peres promising not to 
strike out on his own. But they did 
not meet 

Ramon asserted that the party 
rules mandate a ratification of the 
candidate for prime minister a 
year before the elections. This, 
he argued, “means that the field 
is still open and that the candi- 
date can be challenged. If the sit- 
nation allows it, I will seek the 
'nomination. I am not in the con- 
test in this round, but I may be in 


the next one." 

Barak’s supporters say there is 
no such clause and that Ramon is 
willfully distorting the party rales, 
but they predicted that be will 
snap at Barak's heels and might 
eventually even leave Labor and 
seek alliances with the likes of Tel 
Aviv Mayor Ronni Milo (Likud) 
in a new party. 

When the convention's second 
day opened, the expectation was 
that the Peres- Barak antipathy 
would come into play. Each of 
them met with his closest backers 
after Tuesday’s decision that Peres 
would not be appointed party pres- 
ident 

Peres said he would not show up 
for die proceedings. But his people 
urged him to reconsider, as his 
absence might be interpreted as his 
accepting defeat, in the end, Peres 
appeared and announced that he 
would not join the government. 

“This is out of the question," he 
said. “A national unit)’ coalition is 


also not likely. 1 will not leave 
Labor, and it is a shame to waste 
time on that. Time is precious now 
and is running out fast for the 
peace process and that should be 
uppermost in our minds. I will 
work for peace and need no one's 
permission to do so." 

He promised to cooperate with 
the new party leader, but stressed 
that he will not quit politics. Peres 
refused to endorse a leadership 
candidate. 

Barak sought to justify the 
showdown and argued that “there 
was no other choice when we 
failed to reach a compromise. I am 
sure we will make use of Shimon’s 
talent and experience. He is too 
great for titles. He doesn’t need 
them." 

Barak's chief opponent Yossi 
Beilin, however, charged that “this 
showdown was a superfluous 
demonstration of power, and this 
power play is what is so frighten- 
ing in Barak." 



Labor Party MKs (from left) Ehud Barak, Uzi Baraxn, Ephraim Sneh, and Shtomo Ben-Ami stand at attention during the playing 
of the national anthem at yesterday’s convention dosing in Tfel Aviv. (Ram Engei/bnei Sun; 

Sneh, Ben-Ami reject Beilin call 
to drop out of Labor leadership race 


By SABAH H0H1C 

Labor leadership candidates MK 
Ephraim Sneh and MK Shlomo 
Ben-Ami rejected an appeal by 
MK Yossi Beilin, another candi- 
date, to withdraw from the race. 

Beilin had made die request to 
improve his chances against fron- 
trunner MK Ehud Barak. 

All four leadership hopefuls 
delivered speeches at Tel Aviv’s 
Mann Auditorium to close the 
party convention last night. 
Outgoing party leader MK 
Shimon Peres walked out just 
before Barak’s turn came. 

The first speech, and the best 
according to audience reaction, 
was Benin's. He began by extend- 
ing an apology to Peres, his long 
time patron. “Dear Shimon, 1 
apologize to yon. I can only pray 
that the Likud's mistakes will 
overshadow the grievous error of 
last night." His supporters cheered 
loudly. 

Beilin wondered “what the 
future image of this party win be. 
Will it be power politics and 
showdowns with multi-colored 


balloons? Will we have a single 
leader who possesses a party? Or 
will we have a party wife an ide- 
ology, which is headed by a 
leader?" 

He urged Ben-Ami and Sneh, 
both of whom are seen as having 
far lesser chances than Barak and 
himself, to drop ont “so that we 
like- minded people cam form one 
bloc." 

He attacked Barak for not sup- 
porting Oslo B, for supporting 
Ariel Sharon on Hebron, and for 
supporting even more construc- 
tion on Har Homa than Prime 
Minister Binyamin Netanyahtu 
Beilin said hie, too, can defeat 
Netanyahu. 

Sneh, who followed Beilin, pre- 
sented himself as fee “feeling 
heart of the party. Power and 
brains are one tiling, but bow 
about feelings and heart? We can- 
not do without them." To Such’s 
mind “the convention, billed as an 
ideological one, was a great miss." 
He charged that Labor bad done 
little abort leading the nation in 
domestic politics and asserted that 
it must have values and principles 



Yossi Beilin 

and consider all problems. 

Barak was the third speaker, 
according to lots cast He was 
welcomed by loud chants, but also 
by catcalls of "Bibi” by those 
Laborites who claim he is too sim- 


ilar to fee prune minister. 

“1, too, have divided feelings 
about what happened at this con- 
vention,” he said. “The sbowdowt 
was not essential. I sought to pre- 
vent it, but once we reached fee 
moment of decision, a democratic 
party could not escape the democ- 
ratic verdict.” He declared his 
confidence that “Shimon’s politi- 
cal career will not be over on June 
3. He will continue to inspire us." 

Barak assured all those running 
against him that “there will be no 
vendettas and that the leading 
members of each camp will be 
members of the leadership team, 
should I win." 

Ben-Ami expressed regret for 
the showdown between Peres and 
Barak. “There are situations 
which call for compromise and 
not for confrontation. The deci- 
sion made was not a good one and 
1 hope that it will not lead to a loss 
for Labor in the greater battle 
ahead." 



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Russia, NATO 
reach a deal 


Hews agencies 

WASHINGTON — US Secretary 
of State Madeleine Albright says 
she was “very encouraged" by 
reports of an agreement on a charter 
to link Russia with the NATO mili- 
tary alliance. 

Albright said yesterday she was 
looking" forward to an account from 
Secretary-General Javier Solan a, 
who held talks in Moscow with 
Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny 
M. Primakov. 

Primakov and Solana gave no 
details about the document but 
stressed that both sides were tough 
in negotiating to win as many con- 
cessions as possible. 

Albright spoke briefly to reporters 
before meeting at the State 
Department with Russian Defense 
Minister Igor Rodionov. 

Rodionov, meanwhile, praised the 
agreement at die Pentagon as a com- 
promise that suits both sides. “I 
think it is very good," he said. 

“It demonstrates die intentions of 
both sides to meet each other’s inter- 
ests," he said. 

Russian hardliners predictably 
attacked yesterday’s deal while lib- 
eral politicians and experts took a 
cautious line, waiting for more 
details to emerge. 

"(The West) has often cheated 
Russia and they will probably cheat 
us this time as well because we have 
nothing to trade with," Albert 


Makashov, a communist deputy in 
ihe State Duma lower house of par- 
liament, told reporters. 

Primakov and Solana said that 
after tough talks they had finally 
come to terms on die document 
aimed at mapping out relations 
between Moscow and the Western 
■alliance. 

Solana told, a joint news confer- 
ence the deal, also intended to 
address some of Moscow’s con- 
cerns about NATO expansion, could 
be ready for signing in Paris on May 
27 after President Boris Yeltsin and 
leaders of the 16 alliance members 
approve it. 

A Russian Communist Party 
leader, Anatoly Lukyanov, said he 
was impressed by Primakov’s tough 
bargaining but suggested the deal, 
hammered out by the minister with 
little space for maneuver, was 
unlikely to win wide public backing. 

"Our contacts with Primakov in 
the Duma and in the Foreign 
Ministry show that he defended die 
only possible option." Lukyanov 
told reporters. “But in our opinion 
the agreement itself cannot be wel- 
comed by society and cannot 
prompt positive emotions among 
deputies.’’ Lukyanov said that, 
whatever the compromise, bargain- 
ing over the deal was humiliating 
for Russia. 

“There is a battle raging over 
NATO expansion," he said. 

"But this is not a battle of equals." 


In the course of talks, which started 
in January, Moscow said repeatedly 
it disapproved of NATO’s decision 
to invite several eastern European 
countries to join the alliance. 

But Russian leaders have said that 
a say in NATO decision-making and 
a firm promise never to move die 
alliance's military infrastructure 
eastwards could dispel some of its 
security concerns. 

NATO said it had no plans to 
move forces to the east but has 
refused to give any formal guaran- 
tees for die future, arguing drat this 
would hamper the rights of new 
members. 

The Czech Republic’s President 
Vaclav Havel, confident of being 
asked to join NATO, is urging US 
officials to limit concessions to 
Russia. 

Talks have centered on assurances 
NATO doesn't plan to deploy 
nuclear weapons or station "signifi- 
cant" numbers of combat troops or 
conventional weapoas on the terri- 
tory of new members. 

Havel said decisions about NATO 
force size and stieug th should be 
made with security strategy in mind, 
"But it should not be done because 
NATO has bound itself to such 
action in an agreement with some- 
one else." 

"The alliance may not feel the 
need to deploy additional troops,” 
he told a news conference, saying 
that was for NATO alone to decide. 


Turkish troops pour into 
Iraq to attack Kurds 


By YAUWAH OHAHAH 

BATMAN. Turkey (AP) — 
Turkey's militaryyesterday launched 
an offensive into northern Iraq to 
oust Turkish Kurdish guerrillas from 
their hideouts, the government said. 

Turkish TV stations reported 
troops started to cross into Iraq at 
dawn at Habur, a border town 250 
km south of this southeastern city. 

It was the latest in a series of 
springtime cross border attacks by 
Ihikey aimed at the autonomy-seek- 
ing rebels. 

‘ Iraq condemned the offensive, but 
there was little it could do. The area 
is under the control of Iraqi Kurdish 
groups, kept out of Baghdad's reach 
by a US-led allied air force. 

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish People’s 
Democracy Party said 50.000 sol- 
diers and 350 tanks crossed into 
northern Iraq. 

"The figure is exaggerated," stud 
Col. Husnu Dag, a military 
spokesman. “It is a small-scale, 
short-term operation."He refused to 
say how many soldiers were 


involved, and the government pro- 
vided no immediate casualty figures. 

The Thritish Kurdish rebel group, 
known as the PKK, has an estimated 
10,000 fighters in the mountains of 
southeastern Turkey and in northern 
Iraq. 

The official Anatolia news agency 
said at least five separate Turkish 
Kurdish rebel bases were hit by the 
jets. 

The first encounter with die rebels 
took place in the region of 
Sarisarilar, just across the border, 
according to Anatolia. 

The troops bad also trapped a large 
number of guerrillas at the regions of 
Sivi and Dutaza. 

PKK rebels apparently had been 
fighting with an Iraqi Kurdish oppo- 
sition group, the Kurdish 
Democratic Party, KDP. which con- 
trols the area along die Turkish bor- 
der. 

Defense Minister Turban Tayan 
said the Turkish troops went into 
northern Iraq to help the KIM*. He 
said the KDP was trying to protect 
the local population from PKK 


“harassment." “We answered (KDP 
leader) Massoud Bazzani's appeal 
for help," Thyan said. 

Turkey has said the Iraqi Kurdish 
group mus t keep die PKK away 
from die Thikish border as a coodi- 
tiou for allowing the US-led airforce 
to operate from a Turkish base. 

After 12 years of fierce fi gh ting 
that has cost 28,000 lives, Tbrkey 
las pushed its war with rebel Kurds 
out of the cities and mainly to the 
mountains. 

Turkey has launched major offen- 
sives in northern Iraq in recent 
springs to take ad v antage of good 
weather conditions in the mountain- 
ous terrain. 

"This aggression contradicts 
Turkey's pledge to respect Iraq’s 
sovereignty and integrity and also 
the principle of good neighborii- 
ness,” the official Iraqi News 
Agency quoted an unidentified offi- 
cial as saying. 

The official said the "invading 
troops" heavily damaged the border 
towns of Zakho and Imadiya. He 
called for an immediate withdrawal- 


Tests start on James Earl Ray’s rifle 


RHODE ISLAND (AP) — The gun and bullet pros- 
ecutors say killed Martin Luther King Jt were seen 
publicly for the first time in nearly 20 years yesterday 
in anticipation of tests that could change history. 

The gun was removed from a padlocked black case 
marked “evidence" and the bullet was displayed in a 
clear plastic container at the University of Rhode Island 
crime lab. Weapons experts win test them to cry to deter- 
mine whether James Earl Ray killed the black civil 
rights leader at a Memphis, Tennessee, motel in 1968. 

Ray believes the tests will show the bullet that lulled 
King did not come from his .30-06 hunting rifle. 


Defense lawyer Jack McNeil said even if the tests 
show die bullet came from Ray’s gun, it does not prove 
Ray fixed the weapon and he will continue to seek a trial. 

“This is not die end all and be all,” he said. “It’s 
important, but the fact remains that from the very 
beginning James Earl Ray c chi tended he was not 
there.” John Campbell of the Shelby County, 
Tennessee, district attorney's office said he does not 
believe another trial will change anything. 

Ray, 69, pleaded guilty to the killing in 1969 and 
was sentenced to 99 years in prison. But he recanted 
days later and has fought for a trial ever since. 



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Queen opens new Parliament 


News 

LONDON — With old pageantry, but dif- 
ferent politics. Queen Elizabeth II yesterday 
opened a new session of Parliament, 
announcing the first legislative program 
drawn up by a Labor government 
for 18 years. 

Prime Minister Tony Blair 
committed his new Labor gov- 
ernment to a major program of 
constitutional reform aime d at 
making a decisive break with the 
years of Conservative rule. 

Blair and his defeated 
Conservative predecessor John 
Major, their roles reversed by 
Labor’s landslide election victo- 
ry May 1, stood side by side with 
other commoners while the queen 
read the 15-minute speech. 

Officials said die -far-reaching 
legislative package reflected the 
priorities of a “people’s government” and 
would begin the process of fulfilling the core 
election commitments that swept Labor to 
power on May]. 

“The new government will govern for the 
whole nation and give everyone — regard- 
less of background — the chance to succeed 
in life,” Blair's office said. 

The program included major bills to set up 


Tony Blair 

(Renter) 


separate assemblies for Scotland and Wales, 
a ban on tobacco advertising, an elected 
mayor of London, and a 5-billion pound 
(S8.2 billion) windfall tax on utility compa- 
nies. 

It represented the first move in implement- 
ing die centrist election platform 
(to which Blair’s revamped Labor 
party, stripped of socialist tenets, 
won power. 

The program contains radical con- 
stitutional proposals while stick- 
ing largely to Conservative spend- 
ing restraints and pledges not to 
raise personal taxes. 

There was a reprieve for the 
ermine-robed members of the 
largely hereditary House of Lords 
who sat in front of the queen, who 
wore a long white gown and a 
crown. 

Among the 26 bills the queen out- 
lined, there was no mention of the 
government's plan to strip the scions of 
ancient, aristocratic families of the right to 
vote in the unelected upper House of Lords. 
They sit in the Lords alongside commoners 
given titles for life. 

“It remains a commitment in our program, 
but it is not something we are going to do in 
the first- year or 18 months,” Peter 
Mandelson. Labor’s campaign manager and 


now a government minister, said in BBC 
television interview. 

But he warned that if the Conservative- 
dominated Lords, who can delay bills for six 
months, try to frustrate Labor’s program 
"there will be a head of steam growing very 
quickly for changes." The 71 -year-old 
monarch arrived for the ceremony at 
Parliament with her husband. Prince Philip, 
in a horse-drawn state carriage flanked by a 
cavalry guard of honor. 

Reading the speech written by the govern- 
ment. the queen also announced a bill to out- 
law handguns — a radical measure following 
the massacre last year of 16 kindergarten 
children and their teacher in Dunblane, 
Scotland. 

Despite Labor's warnings, some peers 
strongly opposed to the handgun ban are 
readying for a final confrontation with the 
Commons. 

“You have to stand by your principles," the 
21st Earl of Shrewsbury, who inherited a 
15th century title, said this week. 

“If they're going to do away with the 
hereditary principle in the Lords, we would 
rather be seen to go down fighting.” In the 
659-member House of Commons, Blair can 
expect little trouble. Labor, in its best-ever 
performance, won an overwhelming majori- 
ty .and has 180 seats more than all the other 
parties combined. 


China returns 
hijacker to Taiwan 


TAIPEI (AP) — China teamed 
up with Taiwan in their first joint 
effort against air piracy yester- 
day, sending back a Taiwanese 
journalist who hijacked a Boeing 
757. 

Despite the absence of official 
ties, China allowed 15 Taiwanese 
officials and policemen into its 
southern port of Xiamen to take 
custody of Liu Shang-chun and 
sail him to the nearby Taiwanese 
island of Quemoy, officials said. 

Liu was taken out on a 
Taiwanese boat, despite Taiwan’s 
ban on direct sea links with China, 
said the Straits Exchange 
Foundation, which handles 
exchanges with the mainland. 

He was then flown from 
Quemoy to Taipei, the Taiwanese 
capital, to be charged, officials 
said. 

Liu hijacked the jetliner of Far 
East Air Transport, a Taiwan com- 
pany, to Xiamen on March 10 by 


threatening to set fire to his gaso- 
line-doused clothes. He was 
arrested, while the airliner 
returned to Taiwan with its 149 
passengeis and eight crew mem- 
bers. 

China at first refused to hand 
Liu over, accusing Taiwan of fail- 
ing to honor an unsigned agree- 
ment to repatriate Chinese hijack- 
ers. But it later changed its stand 
with an offer to join forces wife 
Taiwan against air piracy. 

Taiwanese officials have said 
they will reciprocate soon by 
sending back two Chinese hijack- 
ers. the first parolees among 16 
Chinese hijackers convicted by 
Taiwanese courts. 

Taiwanese officials say China 
has tentatively agreed not to retry 
them, but Taiwan wants a written 
guarantee. 

“This is a good beginning,” 
Taiwan Justice Minister Liao 
Cheng-bao said after Liu’s return. 



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INAUGURATION OF THE ADLER 
RESEARCH CENTER FOR 
CHILD WELFARE AND PROTECTION 


Lectures: 

Professor Zahava Solomon 
Head of fee Center 
Paradise Lost: Shattered Childhood 

Prot. Zri Esikovits 
School of Social Work, Haifa University 
Children at Risk: Outcome of Exposure to Intimate Violence 

Dr. Dan Sharon 

Bob ShapeQ School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University 
Children at Risk: Childhood and Parenthood 
as a Reflection of Multiple Loss 

Prof. Noach Mflgram 

Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University 
'fen Commandments in Working with Children at Risk 

The Adler Prize for Child Welfare will be awarded to 
Mrs. Reuma Wdzman 
Wife of the President of the State of Israel 


on Tuesday, 20 May 1997, Tel Aviv University Campus, Ramat Aviv 
(By invitation only? 




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Zaire talks flounder; 
rebels advance 


POINTE NOIRE, Congo 
(Reuter) - Confusion over fee 
whereabouts of rebel leader 
Laurent Kabila delayed Zaire's 
peace talks yesterday, a senior 
mediator said on die South African 
ice-breaker feat will host the meet- 
ing. 

A rebel spokesman told Reuters 
by telephone that Kabila, whose 
forces have been advancing on 
Zaire’s capital Kinshasa, was 
insisting on joining the ship only 
after it was in international waters. 

“We don’t want to go to Points 
Noire for security reasons. 

We’ve been here in Cabinda for 
five and a half hours now. We are 
still talking about how we can go. 
We are willing to go to fee ship 
and that is why we are here. But 
not to Pointe Noire." South 
Africa’s Nelson Mandela, who is 
trying to broker a transitional 
agreement and avert a rebel 
attack on Kinshasa, and Zaire's 
embattled president, Mobutu 
Sese Seko, waited on shore in 
Congo’s main port of Pointe 


Noire where the craft was 
docked. 

In Kinshasa, an anti -Mobutu 
opposition stay-home protest all 
but closed down the usually teem- 
ing city of five million people. 

Shops and markets stayed 
closed. 

"The success of today's opera- 
tion has clearly shown feat the 
people don’t want Mobutu any 
more, and people know exactly 
what to do when the rebels come," 
said Laurent Mbayo. an adviser to 
Mobutu’s veteran political oppo- 
nent, Etienne Tshisekedi. 

Zairean state radio said yester- 
day would be a fateful day feat 
could determine fee future of 
Africa’s third largest and poten- 
tially one of its richest countries. 

UN and Organization of African 
Unity special envoy Moharaed 
S ah noun announced fee talks 
delay. Speaking in mid-afternoon, 
he predicted' the talks, described 
by another senior mediator as a 
last chance for peace, would start 
"within hours.” 


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Getting your money back 


Wearable archives 


By BUTHIE BUM 

E veiy so often. I receive complaints 
alwur shops refusing to give cash 
refunds for returned goods. Most shops 
agree to exchanges - on condition that the 
goods nave not been used - or provide credit 
V> slips with which to buy merchandise at a later 
date. Shop owners have blamed the income 
taX'Snd VAT authorities for this phenomenon, 
claiming that once a receipt has been made 
out and registered, it is impossible to alter 
records for tax purposes. Thus, these shop 
owners refuse to give us our money back 
once it has entered their cash registers. 

Both the Income Tax Authority and VAT 
have publicly refuted this claim. This has 
not made a difference where many small 
shops are concerned. However, according to 
a survey conducted by the Hotem Institute 
(headed by former Israel Consumer Council 
director Ada Levanon) for Yediot Ahai onot s 
Mamon financial magazine (May 2), most of 
the large chains now have cash-refund poli- 
cies. 

The following stores will, under certain 
conditions, give you your money back: 
Home Center, Ace Hardware. Office Depot, 
Hyper Rosenfeld, Hahn Toys, Greenberg. 
Hamashbir Lezarchan (only if the merchan- 
dise is damaged, but the chain is reconsider- 
ing this policy), Supenol, Superpharm (cash 
only if the customer is adamant), Co-Op 


Blue Square (it's possible to get cash, but 
nor easy). Meteor Light Center, Toys ‘R* Us 
(if the customer is adamant). Best Buy (at 
the manager's discretion, depending on the 
circumstances and the customer). Universe 
Club (if customer is adamant). 

Before buying any merchandise, it is 
always a good idea to find out about the 
refund/retum policy of the place of pur- 
chase. Every establishment has its own rules 
and nuances of policy. 

The law ensures that consumers are pro- 
tected where the return of defective goods is 
concerned.^ But it cannot, as yet, protect us 
from individual policies regarding merchan- 
dise about which we simply change our 
minds. 

ON A different note: With summer 
approaching, the Israeli consumer is begin- 
ning tc think about buying fans and air con- 
ditioners. Beware. 

A warning from the Ministry of Industry 
and Trade: After receiving .a number of con- 
sumer complaints, an inspection of fans 
marketed by Isramj] Ltd. was conducted bv 
the Trade Ministry Chief of Regulations. 
Grisha Deuisch. 

The inspection revealed that the merchan- 
dise was not up to regulation standard. 
Mechanical glitches render the fans danger- 
ous to users. In addition to preparing a law- 
suit against the company, ministry director 


of the Tel Aviv and central district, Yitzhak 
Danieli, has ordered a freeze on all remain- 
ing fans in stock, which are to be fixed by 
the company. Only after receiving the OK 
from the ministry, will Isramil. Ltd. be 
allowed to resume sale of the fans. 

If you should come across any such fan, 
inform the district office of the Ministry of 
Industry and Trade in which the shop is 
located: Phone numbers: (02) 622-0281/2; 
(03) 560-4611; (04) 867-1669; (07) 628- 
0771. 

Also, take note: When purchasing an air 
conditioner which both cools and heats a 
room, check that the heating element will 
continue to work in very cold weather. Since 
these units have an outside exhaust pipe, 
condensation in the pipe freezes and can 
prevent the unit from providing any heat. 

Request a written guarantee (even if this is 
in the form of a signature from the sales per- 
son or manager of the place of purchase) 
that your heater will work in cold weather. 
This way. if you were misled, you will have 
grounds for returning the unit or for suing in 
-a small claims court. Asking for a signature 
usually serves as a good preventive measure 
in any transaction. 

You are invited to offer personal stories 
about goods and services in this country. 
Write to: Ruthie Blum, FOB 81. 91060 
Jerusalem. 


Aliza’s wig shop: Come for a wash & sty 
leave with a dose of Jewish mysticism 


F or 20 years, Aliza Shor has 
made her living in 
Baltimore helping Jewish 
wives observe the biblical prohi- 
bition against exposing their 
hair to anyone but their hus- 
bands. 

While Orthodox homemakers 
go to Shor’s wig shop to keep 
the faith and feel good about 
their looks, they leave with more 
than a wash and style. 

*T talk of spiritual things," 
says Shor, the Israeli-born dean 
of Baltimore's sheitel machers, 
Yiddish for wig-makers. -Some 
women walk in with a big stone 
in their heart and walk out with 
a smile." 

Shor listens carefully and 
speaks gently, making the per- 
son in her chair feel as though 
she has left a world where ill 
winds can wreck the nicest “do" 
and into one where a good, sim- 
ple brushing will restore order. 

If the customer is worried, 
Shor provides a rock to hold 
onto from a collection she’s 
gathered from Israel, from the 
streets and seashores - mala- 
chite being especially good for 
easing pain, she says. 

She encourages mothers to 
bake their Shabbat bread instead 
of buying it at the store, gives 
away books about Jewish mysti- 
cism, and insists, in her quiet 
way, that if people would recite 
a prayer after using the lavatory 
they would be free of contagion- 
related illness. 

While beauty parlors and bar- 
ber shops are known as places 
where din gets dished, a promi- 
nent sign in Shor's shop 
explains that gossips break 34„of 
the 613 commandments. 

“I tell them they have to live 
spiritually," says Shor, bom in 
Tel Aviv 49 years ago. “I always 
was spiritual, even as a kid. In 
this job, I have learned I am 
good at helping people." 

Years after someone has visit- 
ed Shor's basement shop with a 



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problem bigger than a wig that 
won’t part properly, she receives 
“letters sharing with me about 
their healing and how much I 
helped them. They stay close to 
me." 

In the midst of such faith, hair 
spray flies, wigs are held upside 
down for vigorous brush ings. 
the foul smell of chemicals used 
to give permanents hangs in the 
air, and distraught women rush 
in with their latest sheitel crisis. 

Not long ago. a newlywed in a 
straw berry -blonde wig scooted 
down the steps and whined that 
she couldn't do anything with 


the bangs in the from. “I can 
wash it and change it for you," 
says Shor, taking time away 
from the rabbi’s wife in her 
chair as an assistant searched the 
appointment book for a free 
spoL 

As the woman left, another 
walked in with a baby on her hip 
and a bag of wigs in her band 
that someone had given to her. 
Shor looked them over the way a 
trusted mechanic might check 
out a used car. 

Rebecca Kardos showed up 
with more dire problems. A 23- 
year-old gentile from Columbia, 


Kardos is a cancer survivor who 
lost her hair to a brain tumor and 
chemotherapy 12 years ago. She 
heard about Shor from a 
University of Mainland Medical 
Center social worker. 

“The most beauty on a woman 
is her hair, and losing it is the 
most dramatic thing of the sick- 
ness," says Shor, who encour- 
ages the sick to trust God as well 
as their doctors. 

The hair that came back to 
Kardos grew in very thin, so she 
covers it with a wig much differ- 
ent from the usual fare at Shor's 
- long, curly blonde tresses. 

At Shor’s, Kardos receives 
motherly lectures on how to care 
for her wig - “I don’t have any 
hair technique," she laments - 
but is lost when it comes to the 
intricacies of Jewish custom. 

Nechama First of Northwest 
Baltimore began covering her 
head when she was married 
seven months ago. A 32-year-old . 
graduate of a secular women’s 
college in Massachusetts, she 
describes herself as a feminist 
and feels secure about herself in 
her wig. 

"The law doesn't say you have 
to look ugly, it says your real 
hair that grows from your head 
is private. I like to cover every 
hair,” First says. “It’s your poise 
and your behavior that give a 
message and you can certainly 
look attractive and beautiful. In 
a truly religious Jewish commu- 
nity, which [is] rare in America, 
you'll see that the women are 
powerful and validated and 
respected. I believe we are more 
powerful in our modesty than 
other women are by being out 
front. 

“Physically, it’s the same with 
your hair as it is with your spir- 
it," she says. “There’s your 
inside you only share with close 
friends and family, not the 
American way of spilling your 
guts to every stranger on the 
bus." (The Baltimore Sun) 



By fflBEER FAY CASHMAN 

I f you can’t get to Christie's in 
London or New' York to view the 
80 gowns which Princess Diana 
is donating to a charity auction, you 
can at least make it to the Dana Goor 
Museum in Jaffa. There is a 
Variations in Black and White exhi- 
bition of international 20th-century 
fashion from the collection of the 
Shenkar College Bennett and 
Pauline Rose Study Center for 
Textiles. Costumes and Fashion. 

The exhibition - which includes 
exquisite creations by Valentino. 
Madame Gres, Dior, Balenciaga, 
Pauline Trigere. Bill Blass and other 
notables - opened to the public yes- 
terday and will be on display until 
June 14. 

The garments are not for sale but 
wiii give many an opportunity for a 
close-up look at (he creations of lop- 
ranking international designers. 

The exhibition, held in conjunc- 
tion with the annual meeting of the 
Shenkar board of governors, also 
includes a memorial tribute to the 
late Lola Beer-Ebner. 

Closely associated with Shenkar 
since Us inception, Beer-Ebner was 
the widely acknowledged doyenne 
of Israeli fashion. She had carte- 
blanche access to some of the lead- 
ing fashion houses in Europe and 
translated the latest trends into her 
own brand of Israeli chic. 

Though dating back several 




decades, some of the garments on 
display are so ageless in concept that 
they are as modem as tomorrow. 

One example is a demurely 
romantic Pauline Trigere silk, but- 
ton-through, full-sleeved pinafore- 
style dress dating back to the 70s, 
yet obviously inspired by the late 
19th century. 

Another is a stunningly extrava- 
gant Madame Gres silk taffeta 
evening gown with a one-bare-shoul- 
dered bodice, rib carriage exposure 
and a magnificent skirt falling in dra- 
matic folds from die hip. 

Equally impressive is Christian 
Dior's circa late '50s silk raglan- 
sleeved reversible evening coat, 
which is shown alongside a black- 
and-white silk/satin paneled gown 
by an unknown American designer. 

Looking as if it came straight 
from Hollywood is Norell Norman’s 
wool silk suit, with bolero-length 
cape jacket. Fashioned in 1951, it 
would not look amiss at any high- 
class social gathering today. 

Absolutely worth a second and a . 
third glance is the quality workman- 
ship seldom seen in contemporary \ 
creations. 

Perhaps, by going public with its 
wearable archives, Shenkar may 
inspire higher standards among con- 
sumers who would be prepared to 
payaiittle more for clothes that were 
better made. • 

Of late there has been so much ' 
shloch masquerading as fashion that 
it’s sheer joy to look at garments . 
•which are more than just clothes. 






Clockwise from top left; White taffeta evening gown by Christian Dior; 19th century-inspired 
dress by Pauline THgere; classic black taffeta evening gown by Dior; black and white floral dress 
from the *50$ by an unknown Italian designer. 


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AIR CONDITIONER - Amcor split 
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TYPEWRITER - NIS ,5ft printer- 
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TOR - both sides in single high-speed 
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ENGLISH COFFEE SET - 9 pieces. 
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SEAL COAT - small size, NIS 350. 
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678- 5854, NS. 

SCROLL SAW - 110 v.. NIS 150; 

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AIRLINE CARRIER - for large dog, 
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RALEIGH BICYCLE - NIS 125; 
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TUBELESS TIRE - MfcbeJid. new, 
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Deathly land sales 


T be Palestinian Authority’s call to impose 
the death penalty on any Arab selling land 
to Jews, as stated by Justice Minister 
Freih Abu Medein earlier this month, and its 
apparent implementation last weekend in 'the 
abduction and killing of a Jerusalem resident, is 
an extremely grave matter which demands a 
forthright Israeli response. 

In other circumstances, attempts to protect the 
sale of land to foreigners might be understand- 
able. Many countries have laws and regulations 
which are aimed at preventing foreign citizens 
from attaining too much control over a coun- 
try's land, for land is regarded as a precious 
national resource. In Israel itself, over 90 per- 
cent of the country's land is owned by the state 
and controlled by the Israel Lands 
Administration and the Jewish National Fund, 
through a complicated system of legislation. 
This archaic state of affairs, with its attendant 
economic distortions, is frequently justified in 
the name of national security. A truly free mar- 
ket for land would open the door to the possi- 
bility of non-citizens buying vast tracts of land. 

And to be painfully honest, although Israeli 
law does not formally allow discrimination in 
land purchases among Israeli citizens, and there 
are places with mixed populations, there have 
also been instances in which serious attempts by 
Israeli Arabs to purchase housing in Jewish 
populated areas were met with stiff resistance. 

The problem with the Palestinian Authority’s 
attempts to forbid land sales to Jews is twofold. 
For one thing, its application extends to land 
which is outside of the PA's formal jurisdiction, 
and even Israeli Arabs with Israeli identity cards 
are liable to face punishment for going against 
the PA's wishes. No less troubling is the content 
of these statements, which are racist in tone and 
extremely harsh and brutal in the one penalty 
proposed - death. 

The first implementation of PA Chairman Yasser 
Arafat’s call on May 2 to prevent land sales to 
Jews did not take long. According to the Israel 
Police, Farid Bashiti, a Jerusalem land dealer, who 
was considered to have intimate dealings with die 
Israel Lands Administration, was kidnapped last 
week from outside Jerusalem's Ambassador 
Hotel, taken to Ramallab. and murdered. Bashiti ’s 
killing, according to media reports, was carried out 
by a secret security unit established by the PA pre- 
cisely for this purpose. The PA tried to cover up 
the unit’s actions by claiming feat Bashiti died in a 
road accident, despite die fact that he was found 
dead from a blow to die back of his head, with his 


hands tied behind his back. Abu Medein, charged 
with upholding the rule of law in die Palestinian 
Authority, pointedly refused to condemn the mur- 
der. 

To put it mildly, this is completely unaccept- 
able behavior. Aside from the barbarity of tbe 
murder itself, it is a blatant infringement on 
Israeli sovereignty that indicates the PA views 
all land in Israel as under its jurisdiction. No 
self-respecting country can permit a situation in 
which its residents can be kidnapped in its cap- 
ital city and taken elsewhere to be interrogated 
or killed. If the atmosphere of fear, spread by 
freely operating PA agents, is allowed to devel- 
op among Jerusalem’s Palestinian population, 
Israel’s efforts to maintain its control of a unit- 
ed Jemsalem will be a lost cause even before the 
subject is raised in negotiations. 

Indeed, the PA's police activities in Jerusalem, 
and even in Arab villages within Israel, are not 
new. They have been documented over the past 
three years in die media and are weD known to 
both the Israeli authorities and the Palestinian pop- 
ulation. At this point a Palestinian living within 
Israeli territory wanting to settle a score with a 
neighbor can routinely call on the Palestinian 
Preventive Security Service to abduct the neigh- 
bors into PA territory, as happened recently in the 
Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Bahir. 

Shockingly, the Palestinian Legislative 
Council has not raised any protest against the 
gangland style killing of Bashiti, who was given 
no trial or opportunity to defend himself before 
he was, as if in a Mafia film, “taken for a ride." 
Neither has any PA official seen fit to condemn 
this execution. The fact that this sort of activity 
can be engaged in by elements within the PA, 
while elected officials and representatives 
acquiesce in silence, speaks volumes about the 
type of regime existing on Israel’s doorstep. 

US Congressman Benjamin Gilman, the 
House International Relations Committee chair- 
man, this week took the initiative to condemn 
Bashiti 's killing and to demand that die 
Palestinian Legislative Council vote against 
Medein’s death penalty proposal. The State 
Department, on the other hand, refused to criti- 
cize Arafat and spokesman Nicholas Bums said 
he was unsure whether the US envoy had raised 
the matter with Arafat during his visit to die 
region. If the US is looking for confidence- 
building measures to get tbe peace process back 
on track, a condemnation of Basbiti's killing and 
the abrogation of the death penalty proposal for 
land sales to Jews would be a good place to start 


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 


BREAST CANCER IN MEN 


OFFENSIVE ALLEGATIONS 


Sir, - I refer to your recent arti- 
cle on health, "Israeli women 
waking up to breast cancer." As 
someone who has, in the past two 
months, had her own breast-can- 
cer scare, prior to leaving Israel 
for studies in San Francisco, I 
should like to commend your arti- 
cle; too much can never be written 
on the subject to raise our con- 
sciousness. 

However, it pained me to read 
that only "a few men" marched 
from Liberty Bell Garden 10 Safin 
Square, obviously in solidarity 
with their women, without perhaps 
realizing the fact that men get 
breast cancer too. 

Since being in America, I have 
seen more than one television 
talk show addressing male 
breast-cancer victims, and the 
additional “embarrassment" of 
having to deal with a cancer pre- 
dominantly thought of as a 
women's disease. 

I find it hard to imagine that 
there are no Israeli men who cur- 
rently have to cope with all the 
implications of this terrible ill- 
ness, and perhaps more has to be 
written and broadcast in the 
media to draw attention to the 
fact that men can get breast can- 
cer too. 


Sir, - As a visitor to Israel from 
the US, I find Michael 
Widlanski’s column of April 27 to 
be filled with outrages. First, he 
would like to compare (and thus 
excuse) the Bar-On appointment 
with various less-than-first-rate 
appointments made by US presi- 
dents over the years. But the Bar- 
On appointment is notorious not 
so much for the quality of the 
appointee as it is for the scandal 
surrounding the appointment No 
similar scandal was alleged with 
any of the so-called “failed" US 
appointments mentioned by 
Widlanski. And how dare he lump 
together as “failed" (or "some- 
what-failed" - I lose that one) 
Alexander Haig, Janet Reno and a 
host of other distinguished 
Americans who may have served 
the US briefly or not at all for var- 
ious reasons, and compare these 
with the Bar-On appointment? 

Even more offensive, however, 
is Widlanski 's statement that 


“Clinton's own White House 
counsel staff has included several 
people who were either indicted, 
near indictment or committed sui- 
cide." Specifics? Poor Vince 
Foster committed suicide, and a 
lengthy investigation failed to 
reveal any connection to any of (he 
alleged White House scandal men- 
tioned by Widlanski. Fact Nobody 
from Ginton’s White House staff 
has been indicted for any of these 
“gales" that Widlanski strings 
together, as if anything that can be 
suffixed with a "gate" is automati- 
cally a scandal. This despite a spe- 
cial prosecutor and staff who have 
been studying the so-called 
“Whitewater affair" for years now. 
That leaves the “near indictment" 
allegation to bolster Widlanski's 
“several people" observation. How 
pitiful and outrageous. And this is 
supposed to excuse the Bar-On 
affair? 

BERNARD RAAB 
Silver Spring, MD. 


LOUISE ZUCKERMAN 
San Francisco. 


Sir. - Why are we Israelis so 
neurotic? 

In the Post of April 27, there is a 
large ad by a group condemning 
CNN for’ giving the weather 
reports of the capital cities of each 
country excepting Israel, where 
Tel Aviv’s weather is given and 


WEATHER REPORTS 

not Jerusalem’s. 

For their information, the weath- 
er for South Africa is given for 
Johannesburg, whereas the capital 
city is Pretoria! Is this too some 
dastardly antisemitic act? 

MARSHA EDELSTEIN 

Ra'anana. 


OUTRAGEOUS DECISION 


Sir. - The ongoing debate in the 
media and among politicians con- 
cerning the results of the attomey- 
general’s report on the Bar-On 
affair is obscuring a more funda- 
mental crisis. This crisis has 
implications which are much more 
dangerous to the future of Israeli 
democracy and die release of eth- 
nic tensions. 

A Labor Knesset member who 
owes his Seat to nothing other than 
the color of his skin and his coun- 
try of origin turned to the High 
Court of Justice to reject the 
choice of Shmuel Schnitzer as the 
recipient of the Israel Prize for his 
more than 50 years of journalistic 
excellence. The appeal was based 
upon a charge of racism against 
Mr. Schnitzer, a charge vigorously 
denied by him and others who are 
familiar with him and his work. 


Admittedly without reading the 
one offending article upon which 
the appeal was made, die court 
ordered the prize committee to 
review its choice. 

The implications of this outra- 
geous decision upon ethnic relations 
are mind-boggling. A Pandora's box 
of specious legal actions will 
undoubtedly soot flood the court 
calendar ranging, say. from being 
overlooked for job advancement to 
being second choice in a beauty con- 
test The gamut is limited only by the 
imagination. 

Worse, the freedom to express 
one’s thoughts in speech and writ- 
ing without fear of judicial action 
is endangered by this precedent 
established by a court which has 
arrogated to itself authority in 
areas which may arguably be out- 
side of the legal sphere. 


In The Federalist Papers, the 

authors of the United States 
Constitution defined what (bey 
called the “diseases most incident 
to democratic government" These 
included “zealous opinions con- 
cerning religion, tyrannical majori- 
ties, angry and malignant passions, 
a factious spirit and, particularly, 
the dangerous ambition that often 
lurks behind the specious mask of 
those who begin their careers by 
paying obsequious court to the 
people, commencing demagogues 
and ending tyrants." 

In its short existence, the Israel 
body politic has shown itself to 
suffer from all of these afflictions. 
The court has now made a major 
contribution to what my turn into 
an epidemic. 

JAY SHAPIRO 

Ginot Shomron. 



Spying on friends 


T he attempt by US security 
circles to smear Israel's 
good name has mega- 
boo meranged, following the 
Washington Post's "disclosure" of 
a high-level mole working for 
Israel operating in US intelligence 
circles. 

Senior American intelligence 
specialists are deeply dismayed at 
the results of what was clearly a 
botched hatchet job against the 
Jewish state. 

As a result of the newspaper's 
"leak," one of the National 
Security Agency's most precious 
secrets has been blown; The 
world now knows that NSA had' 
perfected a superbly efficient and 
complex intercept technique, one 
beyond the imagination even of 
spy thriller writers. 

Shock waves of seismic propor- 
tions were felt by officials at 
agency headquarters when they 
opened the paper and read all 
about their interception of a 
phone call between a senior 
Mossad agent in Washington and 
his superior in Tel Aviv. 

Israeli and European security 
chiefs alike were astonished by 
the startling expose. “They 
thought somebody at NSA must 
have had a brainstorm," said a 
now-retired senior intelligence 
official with much experience in 
US security matters. “NSA does 
not disclose anything whatsoever 
about its activities. 

When the Washington Post 
broke the shattering news that an 
Israeli mole codenamed Mega 
had been asked to procure the 
secret letter of assurances sent by 
former secretary of state Warren 
Christopher to PLO chief Yasser 
Arafat following the Hebron 
withdrawal, Israeli intelligence 
chiefs could hardly believe their 
ears. 

For the lion that roared mightily 
from the Post's printing [Hesses 
had given birth to a very small 
mouse indeed. The concents of 
Christopher’s letter had, after all, 
appeared in Ha’aretz not long 
after it was sent 
However, of far greater import 
than the amateurish “scoop" that 
would have shamed the editor of a 
comic book, what alarmed securi- 
ty highups in Israel was the fact of 
the intercept itself. 

It had only one meaning... that 
Israel's much- vaunted electronic 
code system, called Silon (geyser 
in Hebrew) bad been broken by 
NSA specialists. 

About S3on, a French diplomat 
at one time strongly connected to 
Israeli military and security cir- 
cles had this to say: 

"The Israelis have such a wealth 


URI DAN 

DENNIS EISENBERG 


of computer and electronic exper- 
tise, it was dear to me without 
anyone giving away any secrets 
that their variable communication 
system was foolproof, and totally 
secure. To keep it lhat way it was 
constantly checked and upgraded. 

This is still the opinion of spe- 
cialists we have spoken to, one of 


The National 
Security Agency Is 
working so hard 
eavesdropping on 
Israel that it 
neglects its. real 
job: tracking the 
West’s enemies 


PICTURE POSTSCRIPT 



Even elderly Orthodox men have a little boy in them, yearning 
to break out sometimes. The swinging couple was spotted in 

Miami Beach. (Lai Kaufman / Cont inental MMnma) 


Yitzhak Rabin, to keep the matter 
quiet so as not. to jeopardize rela- 
tions with tbe US. 

In 1982, during the Lebanese 
war, another Israeli was caught 
doing the same thing. 

And Mordechai Vanunu 
betrayed his county by selling 
atomic secrets for a large sum of 
mooey. It was later dwarfed by 
the $12 million-plus Brig.-Gen. 
Rami Do tan took from an 
American aircraft manufacturer to 
purchase jet engines that were not 
necessarily the right ones for 
Israel’s needs. 

In short, there are native-born 
Israelis who are willing to sell 
their souls and endanger their 
country. 


whom told us: “The Americans 
are terrific when it comes to inter- 
ception. But even so, there was 
only one way they could have 
broken Silon. And that is through 
a NSA mole operating inside 
Israeli intelligence. 

“I am certain that die Israelis are 
working full blast right now, 
weighing the consequences of die 
NSA interception." 

The very same fears are jolting 
European intelligence services - 
particularly in Paris, where there 
has been a strong suspicion of 
NSA spending huge sums in brib- 
ing local security operatives 
worldwide to hand over top-secret 
electronic codes. 

For the clue to die secret of the 
NSA penetration we need to go 
back over a decade, when die 
Russians shot 25 CIA local com- 
munication operatives. The man 
who betrayed them was CIA 
agent Aldrich Ames, who hid his 
treachery by telling his superiors 
that it was Jonathan Pollard who 
had revealed tbe operators' identi- 
ties, via Israel, to the Soviet 
Union. 

The possibility that there is an 
Israeli traitor in our intelligence 
community cannot be disregard- 
ed, for it has happened before. 

Foreign newspapers revealed 
that an Israeli intelligence officer 
had been imprisoned in 1986 for 
selling secret information to 
Washington. He was tried secret- 
ly, and sent to prison. 

Shimon Peres, then prime min- 
ister of a national unity govern- 
ment, agreed, with the backing of 


THE top priority now for Israeli 
and European intelligence chiefs 
following the Washington Post 
fiasco is to examine every aspect 
of a new situation in which their 
secret codes are an open book to 
the US. 

Almost certainly die codes will 
have to be changed There will 
also need to be a fresh staff 
screening operation. It all adds op 
to much woric and heavy expense. 

‘ As for NSA, it will have to 
write off die many millions spent 
on creating sophisticated inter- 
ception techniques, and start 
afresh recruiting an expanded 
informer network. 

The FBI is said to be holding an 
investigation into the Mega mole 
theory. 

There have been suggestions 
that despite the commotion over 
Mega, it was in reality just an 
ordinary telephone conversation. 
But die FBI is investigating what 
it calls an “intercept communica- 
tion." 

NSA bosses will also want to 
know why the “leak” to the 
Washington Post was not careful- 
ly vetted to avoid embarrassing 
the organization and revealing a 
key secret 

What troubles Israel’s intelli- 
gence services is that NSA’s main 
preoccupation seems to be eaves- 
dropping on conversations 
between friendly powers, when its 
real task should be keeping watch 
on hostile nations and amassing 
vital information on international 
terror. 

The Mega fouiup will make this 
job even more difficult since now 
the West's foes will also be raking 
precautions to protect their com- 
munication methods. 


The writers are authors of The 
Mossad: Secrets of the Israel 
Secret Service and other books on 
the Middle East. 


POSTSCRIPTS 


THEY'RE S' I'l l .1. laughing about 
this at the Washington Jewish 
Week, someone at that newspaper 
received a letter in the mail bearing 
one of those American "Hanukka" 
stamps. Blazoned across the stamp 
was a postmark that read, natural- 
ly: “PLEASE MAIL EARLY FOR 
CHRISTMAS" 


MAGGOTS THAT thrive on dead 
body tissue could be the latest 
weapon for plastic surgeons trying 
to save a patient’s limb, a British 
doctor said 

Kenneth Graham, a plastic sur- 
geon at University College 
Hospital in London, said be had 
used maggots to heal up badly 
infected wounds in six patients - 
with a little tickling sensation the 
only side-effecL 

Graham said the maggots had 
several beneficial effects. They 
secrete an enzyme that breaks down 
dead tissue as they feast Fluid that 
builds up in the wound washes 
away bacteria. He said the maggots 
also create alkaline conditions 
which are conducive to teahng. 

Graham said patients do not 
have to spend any time in surgery 
or in a hospital room. 

One patient was “walking down 
Oxford Street" in London hours 
after treatment, with tbe maggots 
quietly doing their work as be 
shopped, Graham said. 


The 


viewer 

sellout 


MARK L. LEVINSON 


the dumplings Ire was enjoying 
e made of c 


IS this the same country wbeite, in 
the 1970s. color was erased from 
TV broadcasts to spare the econo- 
my from overspending on home 
entertainment? 


There’s a very fishy 
odor emanating 
from my TV set 
these days, 
accompanied by the 
constant clinking 
of coins 


Is tills the country that gave us 
the Kolbotek consumer broad- 
casts, Arabic lessons with Shaike 
Ophir, the Pillar of Fire history 
series? 

Alas, it’s not even tire same 
country that, several years ago, 
stopped tire Lebanese evangelical 
station from broadcasting in 
Hebrew. Now our Christian 
neighbors there can propagandize 
us freely, as long as they run ads 
for Israeli businesses. 

Tbe Peled Committee sells us 
all out, from the squalling sabra 
schoolchild to the stooped 
Ethiopian kes. 

It wants to abolish educational 
TV and army radio, and it 
already has approval for five 
new commercial stations: news, 
Arabic, religion, music, and 
Russian/ Amharic. 

What kind of news are we 
going to get from a station that 
runs on advertising? Judging 
from other countries' experience, 
lots of interviews with the young 
and glib to make us feel chipper 
about the world, and lots of sen- 
sationalist reporting to make us 
say, "Thank goodness we're bet- 
ter off." 

We will get only what will 
keep us contented and trusting 
as we enter the pause for adver- 
tisements. It will be program- 
ming for people with money to 
spend, displaying nothing to 
offend the fiat cats or furrow the 
public brow. 

How can a Russian/ Amharic 
channel serve immigrants proper- 
ly when its primary purpose is to 
sell them as much merchandise as 
possible? How can a religious 
channel serve both God and 
Mammon? Will there be nothing 
educational? 

Left to tire mercies of capital- 
ism, educational programming in 
America has gone largely under- 
funded. Are private philan- 
thropists here any richer or big- 
ger-hearted? 

For the first time in its history 
Israel has a businessman as 
prime minister. The government 
wants to distance even the 
schools themselves from its 
cashbox, while paradoxically 
hoping that science-based 
industry will make us all pros- 
perous. But- in Britain tbe 
Thatcherist government, with 
its emphasis on small govern- 
ment and big business, has fall- 
en. 

The time is likely to come here, 
too, when the voters wake up and 
smell the fish. It is not getting any 
freshen 


The writer is a Herjiya-based 
freelancer. 



I think the Shopping Channel is 
a decoy. 

Jackie Gleason, the 
American comic, once told a story # 
about his father, who bated fish. 

Gleason’s mother served him a 
slice of cod and a couple of 
dumplings. “If you don’t warn the 
fish, at least eat the dumplings," 
she said. 

The old man didn't know that 


were made of gefilte fish. 

I think that the cable TV people 
in Israel gave us the Shopping 
Channel - huckstering at its 
crassest - like a pallid, rubbery 
slice of cad served for tire pur- 
pose of being rejected as we pro- 
ceed to consume the same thing 
in disguise. 

Television today, under nominal 
government supervision, is a 
dumpling made mostly of profi- 
teering; and it is getting fishier. 

Scarcely have we come down 
from dismantling our rooftop 
antennas than tbe Peled 
Committee, embraced by the gov- 
ernment, is announcing that we 
should all put satellite dishes up 
there to receive additional pro- 
gramming in tbe name of healthy 
competition. 

There are two dozen empty 
channels on cable, but the gov- 
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purchase another infrastructure 
than let these new competitors 
use the existing one. 

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cable service cheaper, says the 3 
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who want extra cable channels 
will pay more. 

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Laying limits for missile warfare 


The president of Tel Aviv University, an 
international law expert, is trying to draft 
global guidelines on the conduct 
of air battle, Steve Rodan reports 


There 5 "5 a ren 1 
odor eman£ 
from my TVs 
these dap 
accompanies* 
constant din 
of coins 


I ran's got tfiem. Syria's got them. Even 
the Palestinians are trying to get them. 
That’s the story of the Middle East 
missile race confronting Israel. 

Far from the missile batteries is Yoram 
Dinstein. who is trying to figure out if all 
this is legal. 

Dinstein, a prominent expert on inter- 
national law and president of Tel Aviv 
University, is one of the organizers of an 
effort by leading jurists to draft guide- 
lines on the conduct of air war. The ques- 
tions his panel, working in San Remo, 
Italy, are addressing include the follow- 
ing; When can countries use missiles and 
against what targets; 
what targets can be 
bombed from the air. 
how can the interna- 
tional community 
maintain no-fly zones; 
and how can airborne 
medical relief be 
ensured? 

In other words, 

Dinstein says, how do 
countries at war 
ensure that civilians 
on the ground don’t 
bear the brunt of the 
battle? 

The first and only 
time an international 
agreement was draft- 
ed on air battle was in 
1923, before the days 
of missiles or strategic 
bombing. 

“Until 1943. bombers were so impre- 
cise that they did not cause any military 
damage." Dinstein says. “Moreover, the 
entire issue of missile warfare is so new, 
and Israel has probably more experience 
in facing the missile threat than most.” 

The Arab missile buildup, Dinstein 
points out, has been formidable. Syria is 
said to have 1,000 missiles. Iran is 
developing a huge arsenal. The 
Palestinians, Israeli security sources say, 
are trying to smuggle in Katyusha rock- 
ets. The matter is further complicated 
given that in an air war, decisions are far 
more rapid than in either a battle on sea 
or land. 

"In land warfare, you have a flag,” 
Dinstein says. "You could put up signs. 
You could do the same with ships and 
anybody can see whether that ship is neu- 
tral. Bur nt the are everything is so fast, it 
s?retyiire$ immediate decisions.” 

The missile issue is perhaps the most 
immediate and least understood, Dinstein 
says. How can a country fire missiles at 
another and claim that they are not being 
aimed at civilians? During the 1991 Gulf 
War, Dinstein says, the Iraqis fired 42 
missiles at Israel. All but a handful were 
fired toward Tel Aviv. 



Prof. Yoram Dinstein 


That conclusion, however, would clear- 
ly favor the Western nations, whose mis- 
siles are far more accurate than those in 
the Middle East. In the Gulf War, the US 
Tomahawk missile had a reported accura- 
cy of 85 percent, high enough, in 
Din stein’s view, to allow its limited use 
to destroy military targets in enemy cities 
such as Baghdad. 

“What if one side has smart bombs and 
the other doesn’t?" Dinstein asks. "Smart 
bombs might be too expensive, or one 
side can claim that why should it use 
smart bombs when the other side does- 
n't?” 

Currently, Dinstein 
says, international 
law has not addressed 
the missile issue. In 
1 987, Canada, 
France, Germany. 
Italy, Japan, Britain 
and the US agreed on 
the guidelines of the 
transfer of equipment 
and technology relat- 
ed to miss iles, known 
as the MCTR. This 
agreement addresses 
proliferation rather 
than the use of mis- 
siles in war. 

So. the questions per- 
sist What about the 
use of nonconvention- 
al warheads? The 
1993 Convention on 
the Development, 
and Use of 


the Prohibition on 
Production. Stockpiling 
Chemical Weapons and their Destruction, 
contains the unconditional ban on the use 
of chemical weapons. This would theo- 
retically mean that a country struck by 
enemy chemical warheads could not 
retaliate in kind. 

NUCLEAR WEAPONS, however, appear 
to have legal sanction. In July 1986. the 
International Court of Justice at the 
Hague was asked about the allowance of 
nuclear weapons. The court’s opinion 
was fuzzy, Dinstein says, but did not rule 
out their use. 

The international court ruled that the 
conduct of nuclear war is related to the 
use of force enshrined in the United 
Nations Charter and that “the use of force 
that is proportionate under the law of 
self-defense, must, in order to be Jaw/ul. 
also meet the requirements. the law 
applicable in armed conflict." 

The court added, “However, in view of 
the current slate of international law, aad 
of the elements of fact at its disposal, the 
court cannot conclude definitively 
whether the threat or use of nuclear 
weapons would be lawful or unlawful in 
an extreme circumstaace of self-defense. 



Fire away: International law has not addressed missile warfare. 


If Hamas or Islamic Jihad is planning to fire 
rockets from Gaza does Israel have the right of 
preemption? 


The Iraqis. Dinstein says, claimed that 
they were aiming at the Israel's Defense 
Ministry, which he calls a legitimate mil- 
itary target. But not one missile even 
came close to the ministry compound. 

"This was indiscriminate bombing," 
Dinstein says. "You have to fire cm mili- 
tary targets' and ensure that the action 
achieves its purpose." 

Rein Mullerson, a professor of interna- 
tional law at King’s College in London, 
agrees. At TALI'* Howard Giilman 
International Colloquium on Air and 
Missile Warfare. Mullerson argued that 
the Iraqi attacks on Tel Aviv and Riyadh 
were meant to terrorize civilians rather 
than destrov military targets. 

“Expensive, inaccurate and highly 
destructive weapons will only produce 
[the] desired effect when hitting soft and 
unprotected large targets, such as civil- 
ians or civilian objects.’ Mullerson said. 


in which the very survival of a state 
would be at stake." 

Other issues include the legality of anti- 
missile defense. Could Israel, for exam- 
ple, preempt an enemy missile attack and 
claim it was acting in legitimate self- 
defense? 

It’s a question that US officials debated 
several years ago when approving 
American funding for the Arrow anti- 
missile defense- system, diplomatic 
sources recall. 

The US experts concluded that the 
Arrow, which attempts to intercept and 
destroy enemy missiles in the targeted 
country, does not pose any legal prob- 
lems in international law. 

But Israel and the US are working on 
another missile system that some US 
experts find problematic. This is the 
Boost Phased Intercept, in which an 
enemy missile is destroyed in the first 


stage of launch. 

The result is that the missile debris is 
scattered on enemy territory. If the war- 
head of the destroyed missile is noncoD- 
veutional then the results could be disas- 
trous for the aggressor. 

William Dalton, acting deputy general 
counsel of the US Defense Department, 
addressed this issue at the Giilman collo- 
quium. He points to the Uniled Nations 
Charter, Article 51, which does not 
impair the right of self-defense “if an 
armed attack occurs..." Dalton says the 
language is vague. Does it mean that a 
threatened nation can preempt an attack? 
In its rules for engagement drafted in 
1994, the US military allows for a pre- 
emptive strike. 

What about terrorist organizations? 
Unlike states, they are difficult to pene- 
trate, and target countries can rarely 
anticipate their actions. If Hamas or 
Islamic Jihad is planning to fire rockets 
from Gaza, for example, does Israel have 
the right of preemption? 

Other questions involve the .right of 
reprisals. The UN Charter appears to 
define reprisals as permissible only in the 
context of self-defense. Does that include 
a US reprisal for the bombing of the US 
military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi 
Arabia, in which 19 US soldiers were 


killed? 

Dinstein says the formulation of guide- 
lines on air warfare will take years of 
work. His last effort, a covenant on sea 
warfare, took 10 years at San Remo. In 
the aftermath of the colloquium, he says, 
the university will publish a book of ail 
the scholarly papers presented. Next year, 
he hopes, he and other jurists will meet in 
Europe to obtain international input on 
the conduct of air warfare. 

The TAU president acknowledges that a 
major problem with any guidelines draft- 
ed will be enforcement. The Middle East, 
he says, has the largest number of human 
rights violations. Chemical warfare has 
been conducted several times since the 
1960s. Prisoners of war have usually 
been tortured. 

But Dinstein says international law has 
not been ignored, even in this region, if 
only out of fear that it will lead to mas- 
sive retaliation. 

“A jurist always knows the law and the 
reality," he says. “If you look at the Ten 
Commandments, it says, ‘Thou Shalt Not 
Kill.’ Is there murder going on? Of 
course. But if you are a jurist you see this 
as an exception to the rule. 

“In international conduct, there aren't 
that many incidents, but there are viola- 
tions. This must be fought." 


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Not Page One 


NIS 6 million 
at the end 
of the tunnel 


W hy Jerusalem needs this 
tunnel I can’t under- 
stand. 

No. not that tunnel. 

If you drive down Ben-Zvi 
Boulevard, with Wolfson Towers 
on your right and Sacher Park on 
your left, you come to Bezalel 
Street (If you get to the Statue of 
Liberty, you’ve gone too far.) At 
Bezalel. you turn right to go to 
Shalom Felafel. or mm left onto 
newly-built Ma’ar Road, to drive 
through the capital's latest archi- 
tectural marvel: the Ma’ar Tunnel. 
Or is it a bridge? 

It's a huge waste of money, 
that’s what it is. 

As popular wisdom has it, a tun- 
nel is something that goes through 
or under, with the assumption that 
there's something above or around 
it It’s a concept so basic I’m sure 
they don’t even explain it in 
Tunnel Building 101. 

If you’re lucky enough to get a 
red light at Bezalel. take a quick 
look at the tunnel. It’s a handsome 
piece of work - faced with expen- 
sive Jerusalem stone, with a pretty 
design up front It's four lanes 
wide and 1 20 meters long, well lit 
and utterly overdone. Ybu know 
what’s above it? Its own roof. 

The tunnel's only use is as a 
bridge. For the benefit of readers 
who don’t live across the street a 
brief description of the environs 
would be helpful. Sacher Park for. 
to softballers trying in vain to 
claim a little space. Soccer Park) 
is a lovely green stretch littered 
with broken glass for half a year 
following Munouna celebrations. 
A year ago the municipality ran a 
road through it to link up two sec- 
tors of the city. The road, a good 
idea in itself, cut off a tiny chunk 
of the park from the remainder, 
but it hardly mattered, because 
that northern tip was not used 
much. 

Somebody at City Hall decided 
it was worth spending NIS 6 mil- 
lion to maintain the continuity, 
and a few more grushim to build a 
children’s playground on the 
northern tip. I suppose to justify 
the need for the ground-level tun- 
nel. 

I thought I’d cal! City Hall for 
the usual good explanation... 

“Thank you for calling City 
Hall, how can I help you?" 

“Hello. I’d like some informa- 
tion please, about the Ma’ar 
Tunnel.” 

“Quite a scandal, isn’t it, sir? 
I’m sure the mayor will want to 
apologize personally. If you don’t 
mind waiting for just a moment 
I’U pul you right through." 

No, you’re right, it didn’t hap- 
pen quite like that 
“Hello, City Hall?” 


“What!" 

“I’d like 

“Wait!” 

“Hello? Hello?” 

“Nobody’s here. Everybody's 
busy. Call back tomorrow” 

“Whom should I call to ask 
about the cost of building the 
Ma’ar Tunnel?" 

“Who are you?" 

“A taxpayer." 

“Then it’s none of your busi- 
ness." 

That’s more like what we've 
come to expect, but it’s even fur- 
ther from the truth. An exceeding- 
ly helpful lady named Ariela at the 
municipality's Spokesman's 
Office took down all my questions 
and promised to call me back. And 
she did. She then pul me in touch 
with a spokesman for Hevrat 
Moriah, which together with 
Minerav Co. developed and built 
the road. 

“The tunnel was a condition of 
the municipality for building the 
rood. They wanted to maintain the 
park's continuity," the spokesman 
explained. Why not just reduce the 
park’s size by about 5 percent by 
ending it at the road, and save the 
money? The city, he answered, 
wasn’t prepared to consider that 
option. 

All right, then; why couldn't 
they build a much more modest 
footbridge, if it was so critical to 


If you’re lucky 
enough to get 
a red light at 
Bezalel, take 
a quick look 
at the tunnel. 


connect Sacher Park with its for- 
lorn appendage? (The Moriah 
spokesman gave a figure of NIS 3 
million for such a structure.) The 
playground could have been set up 
on the other side, though even 
that’s negligibly necessary: the 
park already has a playground. 

Six million shekels. Was there 
nothing more urgent to spend it 
on? 

Maybe they could recoup the 
expenditure with a bit of shrewd 
direct taxation, like setting up a 
tollbooth on top of the tunnel, and 
charging toddlers a shekel each to 
get to die playground. At the rare 
it's used. let's see ... 30 shekels a 
day, six days a week (we 'll let 'em 
use it free on Shabbat) ... it can 
easily be paid off by the year 
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BUSINESS&FINANCE 


Thursday, 
May tS, 1997 


RESULTS 


in brief 


Gilat net up 15% to 

Cilat Satellite Networks Ltd. yesterday reported a 15 percent 
increase in first-quarter net profits to S3. Im., compared to 
S2.7m. in the same period last year. 

Revenues for the quarter totalled $21 .1 m., a 36% increase over 
the corresponding period in 1996. 

On Monday, the company successfully completed the private 
placement of $75m. worth of convertible subordinated notes. 

The notes, which are due in 2004, will not be redeemable for 
three years from the dale of issuance. 

They will be convertible into Gilat ordinary shares at an initial 
conversion price of $42 per share. Some of the money raised 
through the offering will be used to finance the establishment 
and operation of telephone networks in remote regions. 

Jennifer Friedlin 


Crystal Systems moves into red 

Crvstal Systems Solutions Ltd.’s first-quarter net losses 
totalled $239,000, compared to net income of $386,000 in the 
same period last year. 

The company's revenue soared 441 % to $3_56m. from $658,000 
in the corresponding period one year ago. Following the release of 
the results on Monday, die Herzliya-based company's share price 
closed at $18.50. a 5% increase over the previous day. 

The company said that the drop in income was the result of 
increased investment in research and development 

The company invested $435,000 in R&D in the first quarter of 
1997, compared to $171,000 in the fust period of 1996. 

Jennifer Friedlin 


EduSoft net sharply up 

EduSoft Ltd.'s first-quarter net income rose to $460,000, 
compared to $52,000 in the corresponding period one year 
ago. 

Revenue for the quarter jumped 75% to $3.01 m. compared to 
$ 1 .72m. in the first quarter of 1 996. 

The company’s stock jumped 33% to $3.25 on Tuesday, fol- 
lowing the release of the quarterly results. The company attrib- 
uted the increase in revenues to improved sales in Latin 
America, Europe, and North America. 

EduSoft recently launched Virtual Classrooms, its Internet- 
based educational applications. Based in Tel Aviv, EduSoft 
develops multimedia educational software. Jennifer Friedlin 


Bank of Israel calls for 


Clal, Gura 
mull selling 

creation of monetary council Clal Phan 

By JEHWFER FRflEDUH 


By PAWP HARMS 


The Bank of Israel is proposing 
the creation of a new basic law for 
the bonk and a board of monetary 
experts to aid the governor 
achieve the government-set mone- 
tary targets, central bank research 
department head Leo Leiderman 
said yesterday. 

Governor Jacob Frenkel, who 
for the past two years was subject- 
ed to scathing attacks by industri- 
alists and politicians who loathed 
his strong-shekel policies and 
sought to obstruct his maneuver- 
ing room, will present this propos- 
al, along with a package of other 
recommendations for die reform 
of the central bank, to Prime 
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu 
before the end of the month, bank 
sources said. 

The document win call for the 
creation of a basic law for the 
bank to replace the existing Bank 
of Israel Law passed in 1954. 
Speaking at a top-level round- 
table discussion of the bank’s 
future organized by the Israel 
Democracy Institute, Frenkel oat- 
lined four criteria: 

• The importance of achieving 
stability in all the key areas 
according to government targets. 


To do this, the bank is proposing 
the publication of a semi-annual 
report e xamining the performance 


ment, Knesset, and public. 

- The establishment of a deci- 
sion-making framework within 



and capacity to act of the- governor 
to achieve the govemmeni's tar- 
gets.’’ Frenkel said. 

Any legislation must be origi- 
nated by die government, accord- 
ing to Frenkel - a possible refer- 
ence to former finance minister 
Avraham Shohat's now frozen 
attempt to change the Bank of 
Israel Law to include a board of 


Dan Meridor 


Jacob Frenkel 


(lsucHirm) 


of the previous half year and 
expectations for the coming half. 

- The guarantee of full indepen- 
dence for the central bank to 
enable it to achieve the desired 
stability. 

• The guarantee of transparency 
and accountability to tire govem- 


the bank. This includes the cre- 
ation of a monetary board, to be 
headed by the governor and com- 
prising experts independent of the 
bank. 

All appointees would have to be 
free of any conflict of interest. 
“This will strengthen the stature 


governors. 

Finance Minister Dan Meridor 
used the debate to attack the 
bank's apparent war on inflation to 
the detriment of all else. 

"Some in the Ir.it rnaiionai 
Monetary Fund and perhaps Bank 
of Israel want to make fighting 
inflation their main role." he said. 
“I believe it is forbidden to make 
this the key aim. The indepen- 
dence of the bank should not be 
changed, but agreement must be 
reached over policy." 

Joining the debate via video- 
phone from Vienna, IMF vice- 
president Stanley Fischer pointed 
out that evidence shows that 
where there is a fully independent 
bank, there is often higher growth. 

The aim, according to Frenkel is 
for the Bank of Israel to follow 
Western European models, where 
independence of the bank is guar- 
anteed in law. 


Indigo sales drop, loss narrows 


ByJEMflFERfflEDUH 


Indigo NV, the beleaguered 
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printing products which 
announced a restructuring pro- 
gram at the end of 1996, yesterday 
announced that it advanced toward 
the black in the first quarter of 
1997.’ 

The Dutch-based company, 
which has production facilities in 
Israel and an Israeli leadership, 
said net losses for the first quarter 
were down 18%, totalling 
$17.8rrc, compared to $2L6jil in 
the corresponding period last year. 

Meanwhile, revenue for the 
quarter was $20.6m.. a 27% drop 
from the same period last year. 

Following die announcement of 
the results in New York on 
Monday, Indigo's Nasdaq-traded 
stock rose 6% to close at $4,625. 
The stock continued its upward 
climb, trading at $5.25 in early 
morning trading yesterday. 

The company, whose massive 
resmicturing program is designed 
to return it to its former glory as one 
of Israel’s most internationally 


lauded high-tech firms and to 
secure its position as a leader in the 
electronic printing market, said the 
results .are in line with expectations. 

“Nothing here was un predicted, 
not by us, not by the analysts." 
said CEO Benny Lancia. “'We have 
put a tremendous emphasis on 
sales capacity, doubling it since 
the end of the third quarter. We 
hope to see a reflection in the 
upcoming quarters." 

However, some analysts said the 
results indicate that Indigo is 
quickly running out of lime. 

“I don’t see a lot of future in this 
company." said Mark Meiras, 
managing director of Pacific 
Mediterranean, a Herzliya-based 
investment firm. “Companies like 
this give Israeli high-tech a bad 
name.” 

Jim Rashooti, an analyst at 
Lehman Brothers in New York, 
was more optimistic. 

“We’re seeing signs of improve- 
ment in the company's profitabili- 


ty and some improvement in its 
gross margins. This is clearly not 
going to be a fast turnaround,” 
Rashooti said. 

In March. Indigo, which once 
traded at a high of $60, announced 
a restructuring plan that resulted in 
the recent dismissal of its presi- 
dent and CEO as well as the pres- 
ident of Indigo America. Annual 
savings resulting from the recent 
management change are expected 
to be some $2m. A restructuring 
charge in excess of $3m. was 
recorded tins quarter. 

In March, the company also 
reported that it had received 
$2 0m. through a private place- 
ment. The money is designated for 
research and development and to 
enhance its marketing channels. 
Since slashing its work force from 
1,300 at its height in mid-1995 to 
750 in March, the company has 
employed more salespeople, and 
expects to continue increasing its 
sales force in the coming months. 


Clal Trading, the holding com- 
pany that has a 50% stake in 
pharmaceutical retailer Cal 
Pharm, is exploring with Ze’ev 
Gura, owner of the company’s 
remaining shares, the sale the 
chain, Menahem Dotan, Clal 
Trading’s spokesman, confirmed 
yesterday. 

However, Dotan refused to con- 
firm a report in Ha’oretz which 
suggested the two will sign an 
agreement next week to issue a 
tender for the sale. 

The article also said that Super 
phdjTu wouid attempt to purchase 
[he cuin|>any. a step that would 
bring the issue before the Antitrust 
Authority. Before Super Pharm 
could purchase Clal Pharm, the 
authority would have to determine 
whether this would give Super 
Pharm a monopoly in the retail 
pharmaceutical market 

Both Lior Reitblatt director- 
general of Super Pharm, and 
David Tadmor. director-general of 
the Antitrust Authority, refused to 
comment. 

“Any comment about the proce- 
dures of the Antitrust Authority 
would constitute a comment about 
[the article], and l don’t want to 
comment about this,” Tadmor 
said. 

The talks between Cal and Gura 
reflect Clal Trading’s broader 
strategy to sell off some of its 
diverse holdings and to focus on 
its core companies, Dotan said. 

Clal Trading, whose holdings 
include shipping, overnight deliv- 
ery, and biochemical concerns, 
reported a 90% drop in net profits 
in 1996 to N1S 2.21b. from N1S 
23.35b. in 1995. 

Two weeks ago. Cal Trading 
announced the sale of its holding 
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0.57 

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2.8345 

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2.76 

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1.7546 

1.7830 

1.72 

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1.7710 

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2.3503 

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0.4469 

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0.4850 

0.46 

0.50 

0-4818 

0.5183 

0.S267 

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0.54 

0.5232 

0.6545 

0.6651 

0.64 

0.68 

6.SS09 

2.4239 

2.4830 

2.38 

2.50 

2.4438 

2.6180 

2.6603 

2.57 

2.70 

2.6453 

0.7610 

0.7832 

0.68 

0.77 

0.7589 

0.9562 

0.9717 

0.93 

0.99 

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BUSINESS&FINANCE 


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tsaei LSMDereiop - AOfl 145 

Inigo 555 

Fkgiaael— ..13525 

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tonorottiT ae lwotoge s 31.125 

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Top image Spaas. 4625 

Terns Coramunicaftona. 25.125 

Iomi Semcondoor 11 CS 

Iadran Itiecomm .18375 

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SOURCE: SAP COMSTOCK 
'in US dollars 


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LAST CHAWS* 


TASE ROUNDUP 


Shares slip, led by 
leva, Nice, Discount 



Mishtanim 

263 ▼ - 0 . 29 % 


By ROBERT DAWEL 

Stocks slipped in early trading 
yesterday, including two issues 
that fell in New York on Tuesday, 
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries 
Ltd. and Nice Systems Ltd., as 
well as Bank Leu mi and Discount 
Bank. 


Key Representative Rates 


US Dottar NIS 3.3990 -0.059% 

Sterling J<JIS 5.5618 + 0.691% 

Hart JSS1S913 -0405% 


NEW YORK MARKET INDEXES 


□Jlndtatrisb 

last 

CMraa 

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ZZIailsi 

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-1A5 
*1J3 

NYSE Transport 

WYSE Corn) 

3WJ4 

435S 


mm 

+S.11 

S&PSpotWex—— 

-83805 

*2S2 




OTHER MARKET INDEXES 


FTSE 100 _ 
WVOMMd 


Lafl Change 
-45064 -4.1 

-202007 *806 


Snganreaft*taminte 51324 4375 

Haqrang Hang Seng Wo -141535 +247.1 


DOLLAR CROSSRATES (US) 


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Omrt: 
JaUrtxe'tCMB 
Stoncgal 



ECU spot 
Bondi JurUuture 
Sand P JunJufcre 


US COMMODITIES 


Last Change 

Cocoa iMHCEQ — (422 +-(3 

Cofed [AiJtCECl 7406 -055 

Su^t nail [Marl [CEC1 ■ - 

Wheal tWKCaOTT.. —307 -45 

Soybean lAfj tCBOT) 664 -105 

Ow^bitatWltCEq 805 *2.1 

Crude oi Uft UunJICECl 2(59 +002 


LONDON COMMODITIES 


Cocoa (Jifl (LCQ 
Catoe (JuQ (LCE) . 

Br« enrie ofl (JunjpPE) . 


SPOT MARKET METALS (US) 


Gott spot- 
Shrer spt#- 


Uei 

-34755 

—487 


Ciwge 

-185 

♦0 


NEW YORK METAL FUTURES 


Ctrto 1 kmi 

last 

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Zlirao 

+aas 

WgOflradB copper [Way) — 

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+0008 


LONDON METAL FIXES 


Goto AM h- 


LM Change 
-349 +17 

-349.1 +02 

-4878 +48 


Mareh to parenftieKC signals contrad ea. data 
(Spol roW Wings are tom aprodmalehr 
2a30 toraribreL Al efthas are curing quota.) 


SOURCE: SAP COMSTOCK 


doting quota.) 
(DATE 14-MAV97) 


DATA COMMUNICATIONS VIA 


coMPirra mmxMB limited 
i MAomKANCE a sopput 


foreign financial data courtesy ot 

CommStock Trading LM. 

■■■ Futures, Optima, 
Slocks. Bands 
and Mutual Funds 

34 Ben Yehuda St. Jerusalem 


Tei Aviv shares data 
supplied by Pacific 
Mediterranean Investments, 
Td. 09-958-5873. Ail other 
data supplied by 
Commstock Trading Ltd., 
Tel. 02-624-4983. Due to 
technical failures data may 
be inaccurate. The 
Jerusalem Post will not be 
held responsible for the 
consequences of any 
transaction made on the 
basis of these data. 

Readers who wish to report 
missing or misquoted data 
should do so on postcards 
only, addressed to 
Jerusalem Post Business 
Desk, RO.B. 81, Jerusalem 
91000 


P A C 



INVESTMENTS 


Teva eased 0.75 percent. Nice 
Systems, which makes digital 
voice-logging systems, shed 
I.5Ct>. Bank Leumi and Discount 
Bank each eased 0.5?o. On the 
upside. Aeis Industries Ltd. 
jumped 2CK First International 
Bank added 0.75^ and Formula 
Systems Ltd. tacked on 0.5%. 

"What will influence the mar- 
ket today" and in coming days 
“is the earnings repons we have 
in hand." particularly from the 
real estate companies, said Boaz 


Maof 

271.13 T - 0 . 36 % 


Leviatan, analyst at Sahar 
Securities in Tei Aviv. 

The Mishtanim Index fell 
0.29% to 263 while the Maof 
Index lost 0.36^ to 271 .1 3. 

Results at companies like 
Mehadrin Ltd., which is 
unchanged, and Properties and 
Buildings Lid., off 0.75ft. were 
Strong, Leviatan said. 

Shares of Azorim Ltd., which 
hasn't reported yet, rose 1.5ft. 
Israel Chemicals Ltd. dropped 
1 ft. (Bloomberg) 


WORLD MARKET ROUNDUP 


Paris hits record 


LONDON (Reuter) - Paris 
stocks closed at a record level on 
Wednesday, lifted by opinion 
poils which eased anxiety about 
upcoming elections, but other 
leading European bourses were 
mixed despite receding fears of a 
US interest-rate hike. 

On currencies, US economic 
data which dimmed prospects of 


WALL STREET REPORT 


higher interest rates dragged the 
dollar down, as dollar-denominat- 
ed assets looked less attractive to 
investors. 

Paris blue chips put on a 
sparkling performance, surging 
over two percent to close at a peak 
of 2,774.63 points on the CAC-40 
index, eclipsing the previous best 
of 2,736.71 set two months ago. 


Blue chips end 
slightly higher 


NEW YORK (Reuter) - Blue- 
chip stocks, after soaring on sur- 
prisingly good inflation news at 
die producer level, ended slightly 
higher yesterday ahead of today’s 
report on consumer prices. 

Based on early and unofficial 
data, the Dow Jones industrial 


average closed up 1 1.95 points at 
7.286.1 6, after giving up most of 
a gain of more than 75 points. 

In the broader market, advanc- 
ing issues led declines 14-9 on 
active volume of 502 million 
shares on the New York Stock 
Exchange. 


WHERE TO GO 


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Insertion every day of the month 
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JERUSALEM 
Conducted Tours 
HEBREW UNIVERSITY. Tours of the 
Mount Scopus campus, in English, 
daily Sun.-Thur.. TJ a.m. irom 
Bronfman Reception Center. Sherman 
Administration B(da. Buses 4a, 9. 23. 
28. 28. For info, call 5882819. 
HADASSAH. Visit the Hadassah 
installations, Chagall Windows. Tel 02- 
6416333. 02-6776271. 

HAIFA 

WHAT'S ON IN HAIFA, dial 04- 
8374253. 


TEL AVIV 
Museums 

TEL AVIV MUSEUM. Andres Serrano: 
The Morgue. Soviet Photography from 
the Museum collection. Lucian Freud: 
selection o! works- Tzvi Hector 
Sunflower. Portraits: By a group of 
Israel) artists. Virtual Reality: The 
domestic and realistic in contemporary 
Israeli art. HELENA RUBINSTEIN 
PAVILION FOR CONTEMPORARY 
ART . Shtomo Ben-David and Amon 
Ben- David, The Inverted Campaign. 
Hours: Weekdays 10 a.m.-6 p.m.Tue. 
to a.m.-ia p.m. Fri. to ajn.-2 pm. 
Meyerhof! Art Education Center, Ted. 
6919155-8. 


GENERAL ASSISTANCE 


Thursday, May 15 

EMERGENCY 

PHARMACIES 

Jerusalem: ClaJ Pharm, 22 
Kanfei Nesharim, 65 1 -0485 
Balsam, Sal ah e-Din, 627-2315 
Shuafat, Shuafai Road. 5S1 -0108. 
Dar Aidawa, Herod's Gate, 62S- 
2058. 

Tel Aviv: Pharma Daf 
Jabodnsky, 125 Ibn Gvirol, 546- 
2040; Superpharm, 40 Einstein, 
641-3730. Till 1 a.ni. Friday: 
Pharma Daf Jabotinsky, 125 Ibn 
Gvirol, 546-2040. Til! midnight; 
Superpharm Ramat Aviv, 40 
Einstein. 641-3730; London 
Ministore Superpharm, 4 Shaul 
Hamelech. 696-01 15. 

Ra’anana-Kfar Sava;- Shor- 
Tabachnik, 12 Derech Hashalom, 
KfarSava, 742-5850. 

Netanya: Hadassa, 24 Hera!, 
882-2243. 

Haifa; Derech Hayam, 209 
Derech Hayam, 837- 1 472. 

Krayot area: Kupat Holim Clalit 
Zevulun, 192 Derech Akko, 
Kiryat Bialik. S78-7818. 

Herzliya: Clai Pharm, Beit 
Merkazim, 6 Maskit (cnr. Sderot 
Hagalim), Heraliya Pituah, 955- 
8472, 955-8407. Open 9 a_tn. to 
midnight. 

Upper Nazareth: Clai Pharm. 
Lev Ha’ir MaU, 6574)468. Open 9 
a.m. to 10 p.m. 

DUTY HOSPITALS 
Jerusalem: Bikur Holim (inter- 
nal, ENT); Shaare Zedek (surgery, 
orthopedics, obstetrics); hadassah 
Ein Kerem (pediatrics, ophthal- 
mology). 

Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv Medical 
Center Dana Pediatric Hospital 
(pediatrics); Tel Aviv Medical 
Center (surgery). 

Netanya: Laniado. 

POLICE 100 

FIRE 102 

FIRST AID 101 

Magen David Adorn 
In emergencies dial 101 
(Hebrew) or 91 1 (English) in most 


parts of die country. In addition: 

In emergencies dial 101 
(Hebrew) or 91 1 (English) in most 
parts of the country. In addition: 

Ashdod* 8551333 Kfar 
Sava* 9902222 
Ashkelon 6551332 
Nahariya* 9912333 
Reersheba* 6274767 
Netanya* 8604444 
Beit Shemesh 6523133 Petah 
Tlkva* 931 Ml 1 
Dan Region* 5793333 
Rehovot* 9451333 
Eilat* 6332444 R i s h o n * 
9642333 

Haifa* 8512233 Safed 6920333 
Jerusalem* 6523133 T e 1 
Aviv* 54601 1 1 
Karmiel* 9985444 
Tiberias* 6792444 
* Mobile Intensive Care Unit 
(MICU) service in the area, 
around the clock. 

Medical help for tourists (in 
English) 177-022-9110 
The National Poison Control 
Center at Rambam Hospital 04+ 

852- 9205, 24 hours a day, for 
information in case of poisoning. 

Eran - Emotional First Aid 
- 1201, also Jerusalem 561- 
0303, Tel Aviv 546-1111 (chil- 
dren/youth 546-0739), Rishon 
Lezion 956-6661/2, Haifa 867- 
2222 , Beersheba 649-4333, 
■Netanya 862-5110, Karmiel 
988-8770, Kfar Sava 767- 
4555, Hadera 634-6789. 

Crisis Center for Religious 
Women 02-655-5744/5. 24- 
hour service, confidentiality 
guaranteed. 

Wizo hotlines for battered 
women 02-65 1.-41 II, 03-546- 
1133 (also in Russian), 07-637- 
6310, 08-855-0506 (also in 
Amharic). 

Rape Crisis Center (24 hours), 
Tel Aviv 523-4819, 544-9191 
(men), Jerusalem 625-5558, Haifa 

853- 0533, Eilat 633-1977. 

Hadassah Medical 

Organization - Israel Cancer 
Association support service 02- 
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Thursday, May 15, 1997 The Jerusalem Post 


SPORTS 


in brief 

Israel jump 10 spots in FIFA rankings 

ZURICH (AP) - Israel leaped 10 slots in the latest FIFA World 
Rankings released yesterday. They are now in 43rd spot in the 
standings. 

Powered by a 4-0 victory over Slovenia last month. Denmark 
climbed two spots to third behind Brazil and Germany in the May 
The April 30 victory in Copenhagen moved Denmark to the top 
of Europe's World Cup qualifying Group I with 10 points, same 
as Greece but having played two fewer games. It also pushed the 
1992 European champion past France and Spain, both of which 
were knocked down a rung to fourth and fifth. 

Italy climbed one spot to sixth while the Dutch, which routed 
San Marino 6-0 on April 30. jumped three spots to seventh. The 
Czech Republic slipped two spots to eighth and were followed by 
Romania and Russia. 

Juninho set to leave Middlesbrough 

LONDON (Reuter) - Juninho has told relegated Middlesbrough 
that Saturday's English FA Cup final against Chelsea at Wembley 
will probably be his last game for the club. 

Brazil coach Mario Zagallo has said he will only consider play- 
ers with leading clubs when he assembles his squad for next 
year's World Cup and Juninho is desperate not to miss out 
“I have to think of my career. I aim still young, only 24, and I have 
to do what is best for me. It's important that I play for Brazil," said 
Juninho, after receiving the club's Player of tire Year trophy. 

Manchester United and Atletico Madrid are among the clubs 
said to be interested in signing the midfielder, who joined 
Middlesbrough for £4.75 million (.$7.6 million) from Sao Paulo in 
1995. 

Italian striker Fabrizio Ravanelli and Middlesbrough’s other 
Brazilian star Emerson are also poised to leave. Manager Bryan 
Robson is reported as saying he will not force them to stay even 
though they signed four-year contracts last year. 

Muster's dream melts away in Roman heat 

ROME (Reuter) - Defending champion Thomas Muster saw his 
dream of a third successive Italian Open title die in the heat of a 
gruelling three-hour battle with unseeded Australian Scott Draper 
at the Foro Italico yesterday. 

The third seed, unbeaten in Rome since the third round in 1994 
and three times a winner, received treatment for dehydration after 
losing his second round match 7-6, 5-7, 7-5 in temperatures of 32 
degrees Celsius. 

Muster’s exit leaves the tournament without four of its top five 
seeds after two rounds for the first time. 

Reigning Wimbledon champion and fifth seed Richard Krajicek 
joined the list of big-name casualties when he surrendered in 
straight sets to German Marc-Kevin Goe liner. The Dutchman, a 
finalist here last year, lost 7-6 7-6 after losing the two tie-breaks 
8-6 and 7-1. 

The world's top two players Pete Sampras and Michael Chang 
lost in the first round on Tuesday. 

Graf back on the rails after layoff 

BERLIN (Reuter) - Returning rapidly to form after a three- 
month layoff, Steffi Graf cruised into the quarter-finals of the 
German Open yesterday with a brisk 6-3. 6-2 win over 24-year- 
old Romanian Ruxandra Dragomir in just 55 minutes. 

But American number three seed Lindsay Davenport, the 
Olympic champion, was beaten in the second round by France's 
unseeded Sandrine Testud in the event’s first big upset 
Graf was playing only her second singles match after 100 days 
out with a knee injury, during which time she lost her world num- 
ber one ranking to Swiss Martina Hingis. 

But chasing a record 10th Berlin title and undefeated in Berlin 
since 1985, the top seed showed a dramatic improvement from 
her error-prone three-set defeat of American Chanda Rubin in die 
previous round. 

wnander, Novacek punished for doping 

LONDON (Reuter) - Former world number one Mats Wi lander 
and Czech Karel Novacek were banned from tennis for three 
months yesterday after dropping their legal fight over drugs tests 
which showed the presence of cocaine in th eir blood. 

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) said the pair had 
acknowledged the positive results of dope tests taken during the 
1995 French Open but said they believed the cocaine was unwit- 
tingly consumed. 

England to host triangular series in 1998 

LONDON (Reuter) - England will host a triangular one-day 
cricket tournament for the first time next year. 

South Africa and world champions Sri Lanka are the other 
teams involved in- a four-match competition in August which will 
feature three qualifying games and a final. 

The South Africans will have already played five tests and three 
one-day internationals against England starting in May, while Sri 
Lanka have been allocated a solitary test at the Oval at the end of 
August 

Ben Johnson sues to race again 

TORONTO (Reuter) - Disgraced Canadian sprinter Ben 
Johnson launched a court action on Tuesday to win the right to 
race again and prove that he is still the world’s fastest man. 

The suit, filed in an Ontario court alleges that Johnson's 1993 
ban from international competition violated his ability to make a 
living. 

"I just want to clear my name and to move on with my life,** 
Johnson, 35, told a press conference in Toronto. 

Baseball suspends Steinbrenner 

CHICAGO (AP) - George Steinbrenner was suspended 
Tuesday from baseball’s ruling executive council because of his 
lawsuit against the sport over the New York Yankees’ marketing 
deal with Adidas. 

After lawyers for Steinbrenner and baseball spent the day 
attempting to work out a settlement in which the lawsuit would 
be withdrawn, die council barred Steinbrenner and the Yankees 
from participation in all of the sport’s governing committees. It 
did not bar him from running the Yankees. 

Dunleavy named TVail Blazers head coach 

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Mike Dunleavy, who has known 
great success and crushing failure in six seasons as an NBA 
coach, was hired Tuesday to coach the young, talented and some- 
times temperamental Portland Trail Blazers. 

“Of all the jobs that were possibilities this year, this is by far 
the greatest opportunity." Dunleavy said. "The reason I'm here is 
I want to win a championship.” Dunleavy has a 208-284 record 
as a coach, first in two winning years with the Los Angeles 
Lakers, then in four losing seasons with the Milwuakee Bucks, 
where he was coach and general manager. 

He led the Lakers to the NBA Finals in his first season as a 
head coach, but was 25-57 in 1995-96. his last as coach at 
Milwaukee. He served as general manager for die Bucks last sea- 
son. 


SCOREBOARD 

CRICKET - Draw for the quarter-finals of the Benson and 
Hedges Cup made yesterday: Leicestershire v Somerset, Yorkshire 
v Northamptonshire, Kent v Warwickshire, Essex v Surrey. 
Matches to be played on Tuesday, May 27. 


Sports Editors: Joseph Hoffman and Ori Lewis 



Barcelona win Cup Winners’ Cup 

ROTTERDAM (Reuter) - 
Barcelona won the European 
Cup Winners* Cup for a 
record fourth time last night 
with a 1-0 victory over Paris 
Saint Germain who became 
the eighth holders to lose in 
the final a season after win- 
ning the competition. 

No team has yet won the 
Cup twice in succession since 
it started in the 1960-61 sea- 
son. 

Barcelona took the lead 
after 37 minutes when 
Brazilian striker Ronaldo 
scored from a penalty after 
Bruno N’Gotty had brought a 
sweet Barcelona build-up 
involving Sergi, Ivan de la 
Pena and Luis Enrique to an 
end by clattering into Ronaldo 
In the box. 

Ronaldo made no mistake 
from the spot, scoring his 33rd 
goal of the season by sending 
PSG goalkeeper Bernard 
Lama the wrong way. 

Barcelona thought they bad 
taken the lead 10 minutes ear- 
lier when Portuguese defender 
Fernando Couto sent a curling 
header dipping just under the 
bar for what looked like a 
well-taken goal. But German 
referee Markus Merk had 
already blown for an infringe- 
ment. 

PSG went close to equalizing 
after 58 minutes when Patrice 
Loko shot against a post, and 
Leonardo blasted the rebound 
over the bar. 

Barcelona were unlucky not 
to double their score three 

minutes from time when Luis PROFITABLE TRIP - Barcelona’s Ronaldo flies through the air after being fouled in the area by PSG’s Bruno N’Gotty in the 
Figo hit the bar with Lama European Cup Winners’ Cup final in Rotterdam last night. Ronaldo himself converted the penalty which turned out to be the win- 
well beaten- ning goal for the Catalan side. . (Renter} 


Canada takes world 
ice hockey gold 

HELSINKI (Reuter) - Owen that had eluded him at the 1989 and 
Nolan of the San Jose Sharks bad a 1991 world championships when 


goal and an assist as Canada beat 
Olympic champions Sweden 2-1 
yesterday to win the world ice 
hockey tide. 

The victory capped a gritty come- 
back by the Canadians after they 
had lost the first game of the best- 
of-three final on Sunday. It was 
their 21st world title but only their 
second in the past 36 years. 

The win ended a frustrating string 
of second place finishes forCanada 
that stretched back to the 1994, 
Olympics, won by Sweden in an 
overtime diootouL 

Despite running into penalty 
problems in their earlier clashes 
with the Swedes, Canada continued 
to employ their familiar aggressive, 
hard-hitting style. 

They controlled the pace of the 
contest from die opening foceoff 
and were indebted to some rock 
solid goal tending by Hartford 
Whalers’ Sean Buike. 

Burke, who started every game in 
the Canadian net. collected die gold 


the team returned borne with silver. 

Nolan, who was suspended for a 
game for his part in a brawl against 
the Czech Republic, finally made 
his presence felt on the scaresheet 
as well, setting up the opening goal 
and scoring the second. 

Dean Evason. the only non- NHL 
player on the Canadian roster, net- 
ted die only goal of the first period 
when he hammered home a loose 
puck. from the .the side of. the 
.Sweden net after goaltender 
Tommy Salo failed to control die 
rebound from a shot by Nolan. 

Nolan added the second early in 
the second period when New York 
Islanders' Travis Green threaded a 
perfect pass through a crowd in the 
slot. 

With Salo pulled in favour of the 
extra attacker, Michael Nylander 
ruined Burke’s shutout bid when he 
snapped a wrist shot in off the far 
post, converting the powerplay 
opportunity with less than two min- 
utes to play. 


Kent grand slam powers 
Giants past Reds 


CINCINNATI (Reuter) 
Intentionally walking Giants slugger 
Barry Bonds must have seemed like 
a good idea at die time. 

With Darryl Hamilton and BQl 
Mueller on second and third in the 
third inning, die Reds elected to 
walk Barry Bonds, preferring to take 
their chances with Jeff Kent. 

Kent smashed a 3-2 pitch from 
Reds starter Dave Burba (3-4) over 
die (eft-field fence for bis eighth 
homer of the season and fourth 
career grand slam, providing the 
Giants with all of their runs in a 4-1 
victory over the Cincinnati Reds on 
Tuesday. 

Shawn Estes allowed one run over 
7 1/3 innings as San Franciscoposted 
its tod consecutive win. 

Estes (5-2) gave up five hits with 
four walks and six strikeouts, hold- 
ing the Reds scoreless though seven 
innings. 

The Reds scored their lone run in 
the eighth. 

Martins 11, Braves 5 

In Atlanta, Bobby Beni [la’s grand 
slam highlighted a seven-run fourth 
as the Honda Marlins beat the 
Braves 1 1-5. 

The Marlins extended a 3-2 lead in 
the fourth as Paul Byrd came on for 
Braves starter Terrell Wade ( 1 -3) and 
intentionally walked Gaty Sheffield 
to load die bases. 

Moises Alou drew a walk to force 
home a nm and Bonilla launched his 
fust homer of the season and sixth 
career grand slam for an 8-2 advan- 


tage. Jeff Canine followed with a 
single and Charles Johnson belted 
his third homer to cap the scoring. 

AMERICAN LEAGUE 
Yankees U, Twins 2 

At Minnesota, David Cone allowed 
two runs over seven innings and Tino 
Maitinez and Benue Williams home- 
red as the surging New York Yankees 
beat the Twins 11 -2 for their sixth win 
in seven games. 

The sizzling Martinez put himself 
in some fairly legendary company, 
becoming just die third Yankee to 
record 15 homers in his first 40 
games, joining Babe Ruth and 
Mickey Mantle. 

Cone (5-2) allowed 10 hits but 
walked just one and struck out six in 
winning his fifth successive start. 
Rich Robertson (3-2) suffered die 
loss. 

Tigers 4, Blue Jays 0 

In Detroit, Felipe Lira scattered 
four hits for his third career shutout 
and Bob Hamelin hit a pair of solo 
homers as the Tigers blanked die 
Toronto Blue Jays 4-0. 

Lira (2-2) walked one and struck 
out a career-high 1 0. 

Juan Guzman (3-3) faced just two 
batters and threw 12 pitches before 
leaving with stiffness in his right 
shoulder. He gave up a hit and walk 
and both runners scored. 

Hamelin extended die lead to 34) 
in the second when he slugged a 2- 
2 pitch over die right-field fence. He 
added his second homer in the sev- 
enth lo complete the scoring. 


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4, Cincinnati I: NY Meta 4, Houston 3; Florida 11, Atlanta 5; Chicago Cobs 2. Los Aogetes 1. 

Tuesday's AL games: Seattle 2, Milwaukee U Baltimore 7, Oakland 3; Detroit 4, Toronto 
0; Kansas City 9, Boston 0; NT Yankees 11. Minnesota 2; Cleveland 7, Texas 3; Anaheim g, 
Chicago White Sox 7. 


MOSCOW (Reuter) - Jb^^ natk^l sanati ^placed Russia, 

officials, exa^eratediby ^ ba«LMd i 6as^W: !% , * .^.,JttMu«s CSKA wSftplayr 

face at Moscow : frome^^niesai other grou&Kin fhecapBal is 'tiki, 

total makeoverof to jatob in time far. anjmportant . meantime ' ./.■■■ 

Worid Cup qualifier against Israel nexiiriondt. .. . ; Russia beat Luxembourg 3-0ar the 50,000-seater 
Oleg. Todbelovkh, direraor.:tif to'groimd where . Dynamo stadium last moath;but players and o£fc. 
Russia have ptayedhome gantes OTCte tfeLiEiuuki dais cornpIaBied the . state of the pitch after an. 
..... . ' " ” — .. ,«* -unasu^ylwg^ to aaeffeponter 

• .lacking m any display ofvgreat $IaH. ; . 

c . By tte.tua&Sulgaria visit Moscow pn.October 1 1 
' for tire final' group match, .Russia should be *e- 
mscatied tor a revamped andfully roofedi00,Q00- 
.scatLuzhBiki 


national .stadium closed for frnprov^ents >18 
mouths ago, said it 'would havelnto^ye-tiratatera 
with fast-growing grass.seei and rollers. 


Samrday, : grvmg the pitch three ’ 
before Israel, 


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Bulls advance, Sonics stave off elimination 


CHICAGO (Reuter) ^ The^ 
defending NBA champion Chicago 
Bulls finished off the Atlanta Hawks 
four games to one on TUesday, while 
the Seattle SuperS onics lived to fight 
again after staving off elimination at 
the hands of the Houston Rockets. 

The Bulls, sparked by an emotion- 
al performance by bad boy Dennis 
Rodman on his 36th birthday, rolled 
into the Eastern Conference finals 
with a 107-92 victory over Atlanta. 

The Rockets missed a chance to 
join Chicago and Utah in the NBA’s 
version of the final four by felling to 
Seattle at home, 100-94. 

Rodman snapped out of a playoff 
funk with 12 points and nine 
rebounds, helping bold off a Hawks 
rally in the final period before being 
ejected yet again. 

"Dennis gave us so much energy. 
He was amazing," said Chicago 
sharp-shooter Steve Ken, who 


scored 15 points coming off the 
bench, including 3-for-4 from three- 
point range. 

Rodman avoided major controver- 
sy' until late in the fourth quarter, 
when he tangled with Adanta center 
Dflcembe Mutombo and was ejected 
for die third rime in eight playoff 
games. 

By that time, however, the game in 
the bodes and Rodman peeled off 
his jersey and tossed it into die 
crowd to a standing ovation. 

Chicago superstar Michael Jordan, 
who had a game-high 24 points 
despite not scoring in ti»e fourth 
quartet Soothe Pippen added 15 for 
the Bulls, who are in the Eastern 
Conference finals for the seventh 
time in die last nine years. 

Chicago awaits the winner of the 
New Ycrfc-Miami series. 

Christian Laettner scored 23 
points, Mookie Blaylock added 20 


and Tyrone Corbin chipped in 1.9 
Atlanta. 

Sonics 100, Rockets 94 

In Houston, Hersey Hawkins 
screed 23 points and the Sonics held 
the Rockets' long-range gunners in 
check to win for the third time when 
facing elimination in this year's 
playoffs. 

The defending conference cham- 
pions forced die series back to 
Seattle for Game Six today Mien 
they will face another win re hit die 
golf course situation again. 

“When they went up three (games) 
to one, they made the series very 
simple," said Seattle coach George 
Kart “It’s a one-game series every 
nighL” Hie top-seeded Utah Jazz, 
who finished off the Lakers in five 
games, await die series winner. 

Gary Payton had 21 points and 1 1 
assists and Shawn Kemp added 20 
paints and 10 rebounds for the Sonics. 


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Helen Kaye 


T^c . 'vibrant Vienna State 
Opera Ballet Company makrs 
its local debut.with three works: 

Kenneth McMillan's choreogra- 
phy, to Mahler's Song of the 
Earth; and Symphony in Three 
Movements and Movements to 
mode by Stravinsky, both by 
choreographer Renato Zanella, 
who’s served as the company’s 
artistic director for. 18 months 
and galvanized te normally 

staid repertoire, it doesn’t hurt 
that he has some marvelous 
dancers,' including Simona -iw- aCl 
Noja, whose early training as a Tbe v * enna ® 
gymnast contributes hairline 
pnsdsicin to the instinctive poetry of her dancing. 
At the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center tonight at 
830* tomorrow at 1 pan. and on Saturday at 9 
pim.. ; 

CLASSICAL MUSIC 

/• Michael Ajzenstadt 




The Vienna State Opera Ballet Company debuts in Tel Aviv. 


now haw successful international careers. Cellist 
Inbal Segev plays the Tchaikovsky Rococo 
Variations and pianist Ta] Weisman plays 
Menddssoim’s first piano concerto. Also on the 
program are Rimsky-Korsakov ’s Capriccio 
Espagnol and Haim Permont’s Symphortette. Arie 
Upsky is on the podium tonight at the Haifa 
Auditorium (&30). 

Sintca Heled leads the Israel 
Jerusalem in the serenades by Tchaikovsky and 
Elgar as well as m two works for wind instru- 
ments: Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, 
clarinet, bom and bassoon, and Zvi Avni’s Two 
Psalms for oboe and strings. Gabriela Bukowski 
is the oboe soloist Tonight in Rehovot, tomorrow 
at the TO Aviv Museum, Sunday at foe Henry 
Crown Symphony HaH in Jerusalem and May 28 
in Nes Ziona. 8:30, except Friday at 2. 

Pianist extraordinaire Rada Lupu is in 
Jerusalem Saturday (9:15) for a one-time-only 
recital with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in 
winch he {days music by Beethoven, Brahms and 
Schubert at the Jerusalem International 
Convention Center. 

The Israel Contemporary Players perform selec- 
tions ..by Janacek, Takemitsu, Xenakis and 
Stravinsky as well as the world premiere of the 


Septet by Yosi Peles Saturday (9) ax the Einav 
Center in Tel Aviv and Sunday (7) at the 
Jerusalem Music Center. 

~ LIQHT MUSIC 

Michael Aizensta dt 

Tomorrow at 2, Tel Aviv’s Maim Auditorium 
pays tribute to one of the greatest masters of 
Israeli popular song, Moshe Wilensky, who died 
earlier this year. Rafi Kadisbzon leads tire Israel 
. Philharmonic Orchestra in a pr o gra m edited and 
narrated by Ebnd Manor. Among the participants 
are Gali Atari, Tal Amir, David Da’or, Rivka 
Michaeli, Yizhar Cohen, Miki Kum, Nehama 
Haendel, Riki Gal and the one and only Shoshana 
Daman with all-time hits including "TCalaniot” 
and “You Have to Ring Twice.” 

TELEVISION 

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foe two Eliott sisters who upon ihdr father’s death 
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■ rTV3 (33) 

1030 Cartoons 
1630 The World of 
Art 

1730 Panorama 
18:00 Good 


18 rl 0 Tme for 
Language 
18^5 News to 

Endfoh 

ARABIC 

PROGRAMS 

1830 Meeting 

1930 News 

HEBREW 

PROGRAMS 

1930 News flash 

1931 Whaddayasay 
2030 News 
20*45 House of Bott 
-new episodes of the 
BBCcfcama 

2235 Backtrack 
2330 News 
0030 T«ne far 
Language 

■ CHAMEL2 

erf 5 Today's 



63d Tricky - cartoon 
730 Breakfast 
Magazine 
930 Meetings 
1030 Pabb 
1130 Taking About it 
1230 Pfnocchio 
1230 Truth or Dare 
1330 Kate and AIBb 
13.-30 Everything's 
Open 

1430 The Kids of ■ 
Degress! Street 
1430 Tic Tac 
15:00 The Best israsfi 
Video Clps 
16:00 The Bold and 
foe Beautiful 
1730 News 
Magazine with Rafi 


1930 News in Arabic 
1930 News in 
Russian 
2030 News 
20*5 Tetekessef 
2135 Tulsa (1948)- 
a catUe heiress enters 
the cutthroat bustoess 
ot wfcfcat ol to order 
Id avenge her father’s 
death. She bulds an 
empire but loses sight 
of her values in the 
process. With Susan 
Hayward and Robert 
Preston. 

2245 Neon Rider 
2330 International Art 
M agn ate 

■ ETV 2 (23) 

1530 AS Together 
Now 

1630 Hot Shots 
16:30 Opervox 
1730 Cro Art 
1730 Faces of 
CuKwe 

1830 Destines 
1830 Art Workshop 
1930 Worid War T 
1930 Vis & Vis 
1fc50HeloPrina- 
Hebrew for new Imne- 


mute as his own. Wfth 
Tatum O'Neal 
1335 Seeing Stars 
1330 ZoopttS (1989)' 

§1-^5 Perry Mason: 
The Afi Star Assassin 
0901) -Wfth 
Raymond Burr 
16:55 New in the 
Cinema 
17:10 Out of 
Darkness ((rpt) 

18:40 Playing 
Dangerous if (1895) 

& tn the Blink of 
An Eye (1996) -a 
woman Is convicted of 
murder and sen- 
tenced to Be impris- 
onment Sixteen 
years later an old 
mend comes to her 
rescue. W8h K*rra 
Rogers 

21:45 New In the 
Cinema 

2230 Lost in Ybnkers 

S -comic drama 
on a play by 
Net Simon, rao 
teenagers mora in 
wflh their grandmotit- 
ei; crazy unde and 
spirited aunt in NY 
after the* mother's 
death. Wfth Richard 
Dreyfuss, Mercedes 
RueN and Irene 
Worth 

2335 Hostile Force 
(1 996) - two ex-cops 
must take on a 


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Whadday- 




Cream 

Treasure 

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News 

News 

Sunset 


Aitiraaiiaca 

WBdRhn 



Beach 

to the Bunk 
of An Eye 

Mauled with 
Children 



Money 



Journey 

with 

Vtedfrnk 

Housed 

Candid 

Jaffa 


Roseanne 

EBott 

Camera 

ronrans 



Wbotsky 



The 


The Cosby 




Conanteft 


Show 

House at 


DanShSoQ 


New in the 

Different 

Cutturewffo 

YhlrGarbuz 


Live 


Cinema 

Wbrid 

Grupo Corfu 
-Classic 



The Malar is 

Lost in 

Where Are 



Running 

Yonkers 

You? 1 Am 
Here 

dance troup 
from Bred) 

Backtrack 


Love Story 
with Ybssi 



National 



Sfyas 



Geographic 



SelnMd 



Explorer 


fiancte. 

23*5 Movie Makers, 
part 5: Arthur Penn - 
Perm began as a TV 
rSrector and made his 

big break with Bonnie 
And Clyde 

■ CHANNEL 8 

830 Open University 


830 Where the 
Heron Finds a Home 

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930 Plate and 
Peoote: Reiadnna 
and Mandrake (rpt) 
930 Uchida Plays 




ACROSS 

7 State going by private 
transport is a bloomer (9) 

. BA child of ana taken into a 
store (6) 

10 Nice ruse used to obtain an 
undemanding port (8) 

11 The Bast offers an 
. alternative that is not 

heartless (6) 

12 Leave in some haste, 
taknjgfittle baggage (4) 

IS An alcoholic liquors made 
'• from this bean (8) 

IS Attempt to acco mmo date 
people that’s a 
trophe(7) 

1 part of the book to a 
-woxkef.cn 

down-to-earth person 
« aiming for colourful results 
4 <8) ‘ 

22 See trainees do nothing 
strenuous (4) 



25 Advocates arranging a 
berth (3,3) 

26 Joined a non-drinker and 
suffered for it (8) 

27 Labour without 

effort — there’s running 
water (5) 

28 Quite possibly one’s tried 
leaving (9) 


DOWN 

1 Custom-made clothing (5) 

2 When broken up, went' 

-unlamented (6) 

3 Walked stiffly, so given, 
support (8) 

4 The overseer favouring 


5 Name of fixe woman who’s 
resigned? (8) 

6 Ditch a conservationist 
body, though keen (9) 

9 Intimidates bovine 
creatures (4) 

14 Quietly getting to the 
humify (9) 

16 Unsettled individual 
fpalrmg complaint about a 
bad turn (8) 

18 Totally bewildered in the 


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19 Invents a secret process (7) 
21 An emperor having some 
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23 Find a top man comes in 
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24 Pitch into money-raising 

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Yesterday's Quick Solution 
ACROSS: 1 Loose, 4 Canon. 10 
Bravado, 11 Bleat, 12 Stack, IS 
Tambler, IS Eros, 17 Piano, 19 
Erupt, 22 Sari, 25 Assured, 27 
Cable, 29 Capon, SO Utnrgy, 31 
Urfl, 32 Cache. 

DOWN: 2 Osaka, S Slacken, S 
Album. 6 Overlap, 7 Abyss. 8 Motto, 
ft Star* 14 User, 16 Rime, IB Insipid, 
to 21 labA, S3 Adult, 24 

Baryl, 2S BenaL 28 Bbtb. 


1730 Open Cards 
1830 Avnost Perfect 
1830 Kickofi- soccer 
19:00 Pacific Btoe 
2030 News 
2030 Money 
2030 Cantfid Camera 
21*5 Dan Shflon Lire 
2330 Exposure 
0030 News 
0036 Screen Test 
0030 From foe 
Concert Hal 
130 On foe Edge of 
foe Shelf 

■ JORDAN TV 
(unconfirmed) 

1430 Holy Koran 
14:05 Cartoons 
14*5 Curiosfty Show 

ISrIO They Came 
from Outer Space 
1630 NBA Bsskelbal 
1730 Out Of This 
Worid 

1730 french programs 
1930 News neadSnes 
1935 Parenthood 
2030 Cinema, 
Cinema, Cinema 
2030 The American 
Chart Show 
21:10 Kung Fu 
2230 News in 


2030 A New Evening 
20:30 FamfyAbum 
21:00 Star Trek: Deep 

fSsBeetho ra nte 
Concerto No. 4 tar 
Piano, performed by 
Ctaucfio Arrau and foe 
Philadelphia 
Orchestra conducted 
by Hccardo Mutl 
2245 Seventy Faces 
23:15 Israel Pop 

■ FAMILY 
CHANNEL (3) 

730 Good Craning 
with Guy Pines (rpt) 
730 Lera Story wfth 
Ybssi Syas (rpt) 

830 Dates (rpt) 

930 One Lie to Lira 

ISte The Young and 
the Restless (rpQ 
1030 Days of Or 
Liras (rat) 

11:15 Angara (rot) 
1230 Bamaby Jones 
12:45 The Streets of 
San Francisco 
1335 Hope and 
Gloria 

14.30 Dates 
1430 Days of Our 
Lives 

15:35 The Nanny 
16:00 Hercules — 


0035 Mangier 0996) 
- horror ffim based on 
a Stephen King novel 
320 Eyes elite 
beholder (1992) Opt) 

■ CHTLDREN (6) 

630 Cartoons 
9:00 Alice in 
Wonderland 
9:30 The Center of 
Things 

9*5 Phk Panther 
Show 

1035 The Center of 
Things 

1030 Weird Science 
11:05 Welcome 
~ Freshmen 
1130 Magical Hour 
wfth YdelAbecassis 
1230 Twisted Tales 
of Fefix 
1230 Hugo 
1330 Make Befiera 
Closet 

1330 Halo, Spencer 
1335 Return offoe 
Three Musketeers 
1430 Derate the 
Menace 
1430 Alee i n 
Wonderland 
1530 The Center of 
Things 

1535Phk Panther 
Show 

1530 Clarissa 
Explains Al 
16:15 The Center of 


1635 Saved by the 
Bet 

1730 Little Unwersty 
1730 Shesh-Tus 
18:00 Hugo 
1830 Avenger 
Penguins 

1935 Simba the Uon 


1030 Madrigal Erutiti 
-by MontevenS 
lino Montserrat 
Cabate-foeReof 
foe great soprano 
IteW Pictures and 
Music 

12*5 Pirates: 
Buccaneers (rpf) 
13:15 Treasure 
Islands: The Holy Cup 
of CakfiQrpQ 
13^0 W9d Fim. part 
2: Capturing the 
Moment (nA) 

14:05 Pm Mad, Pm 
Foolish, I'm Nasty: 
James Ensor (rpt) 
1530hkxcera 
CiAuve wfth Yak 
Gartxrz (rpO 
15:30 Asterix (rpQ * 
1635 National 
Gegraphc Explorer 

Urfversity 

19:10 Pirates, pert 7 
19s40 Treasure 
Island, part 7 
2035 WldFam. part 
3- Creating Drama 
2030 Journey with 
VledffnrWisotsky - 
A portrait olfoe 
Russian actor-singer- 
poet 

2130 House of 
CUture with YaJr 

Gartxiz 

22:00 Gnpo Corfu - 
CSassfe dance troup 
from Brazl 
22^5 National 


Television: Beauty 
and foe Beast 
2030 The Ticket 
2030 VIP 

2130 Dalefine 
2230 Inside the PGA 
Tow 

2230 GOtete Worid 
Sport 

23:00 The Tonight 
Show with JayLeno 
0030 Late Night vrth 
Conan O'Brien 
130 Later 

130 NBC News with 
TomBrokaw 
230 The Tonight 
Show (rpt) 
330lnterraght 

■ STAR PLUS 

6:30 Nine to Five 
730 MoSe Kaizen's 
CooWng 
730 Gl Joe 
830 Eeld the Cal 
830 Oprah Winfrey 
930 Pfcket Fences 
10:30 Santa Barbara 
1130 The Bold and 
foe Beautiful 
12:00 Hindi shows 
1330 Lost in Space 
1430 Black Beauty 
1530 Charles to 


15:30 MoOle Katzerfs 


2235 Feature Gkn 
0030 Taratata 


1730 Laptaankner 
1830 Local 
Broadcast 

1830 One Lfie to Lira 
19rl5TheYbungand 
foeRestiess 
2030 Sunset Beach 
2030 JaBa Portraits 
21:15 The Commlsh 
2236 The Meter is 

Running 

2230 Lora Story wfth 
Yossi Slyas 

23:00 Seinfeld 
2335 Babylon 5 (rpg 


1930 Cream wfth 
Michal Yanal 
2030 Aramaniacs 
2030 Married wfth 
Chfldren 
20^5 Roseanne 
21:15 The Cosby 
Shew 

21:40 Different World 

■ SECOND 
SHOWING (6) 

2230 Where Are 
You? I Am Hera 
(RaSan,1993)- 


drama by Liana 
CavanL A young deaf 
man tetambdween 
his lora for a working- 
class deaf woman 
and his bourgeois 


University -Russian 
Ctvft War; Leadership; 
Painters for foe 
People 

■ SUPER CHANNEL 

630 Great Houses of 
the World 

630 VIP 

730 The Ticket (rpg 
730 NBC Nighty 
News wfth Tom 
Brotaw 
830 Today 
1030 European 
Squawk Box 
1130 European 
Money Wheel 
1530 CNBC Squawk 
Box (US) 

1730 Gardening By 

foe Yard 

1730 Awsome 

Interiors 

18:00 The SKe 

1930 National 

Geographic 


MOVIES 


1630 Hftxfi shows 
1830 Star News 
1930 Are You Being 
Served? 

1930 Baywatah 
2930 The Bold and 
foe Beautiful 
21:00 Santa Barbara 
2230 Star News 
2£3Q Space: Above 
and Beyond 
2330 HaStax F.P. 
130 Oprah Winfrey 
230 Bamaby Jones 

■ CHANNELS • - 

630 Bodes in Motion 
1630 Bodies ii 
Motion 

1630 NBAPlayofl 


Basketball 


2030 Champions’ 
League Soccer (rpt) 
2030 Ice Skating: 
Worid Championship 

2230 Spanish 


2130 Ibntfis: ATP 
Mercedes Super 9, 

Italy 

0030 Soccer: 
European Cup 
Winner* Rnal, 
Netherlands 
1:00 SaBng Magazine 
130 Tends A Look at 
ATP Tour 

230 Stan Magazine 

■STAR SPORT'S 

5:00 PSA Game ot 
foe Week 

7:00 Got EPGATour 
830 Tends: Greatest 
Grand Slam Matches 
1030 Trans World 
Sports 

tSoCycfinff 
MartxxoTourfo 
PhSppines 
1130 Athletics: Fla 
Sky Runners 
12:30 Worid Wide 

^^WLAFFoofcal 
1530 Luga: Worid 
Cup 

1530 WWF Raw 
1630 Cycling: 
Martxxo Tour fo 
Phippines 
17:00 Showjumping: 

Volvo WbrtfCita 

FnaL Sweden 
1830 BaskatbaL- 
Women'sABC 


10:30 Showbiz Today 
1130 CNN 
Newsroom 
1230 Worid Report 
1330 American 
EdRton 

13:45 Q&A (rpt) 
1430 Asian News 
1430 Worfcl ^3art (roO 
1530 Asian News 
1530 Business Asia 
1630 Lany King Uve 

®0 Worid Sport (rpg 
1630 Sdenoeand 


1930 Q&A with ptz 
Khan 

2035 American 
EdMon 

21:00 Worid Busness 


22:00 Lany King Lira 


BrapeanNews 


Business 


1930 Goit US PGA 
2130 English Cricket 
AXA Life League 
230 Cycling: 
Marlboro Tour fo 
PNjppines 
330 PBA Game of 
foe Week 

■ BBC WORLD 

News on foe hour 
739 The Money 
ProgreramB^b . 
&00*te*&desk 
930 Hard Tak(rpQ 
1030 The Money 


0030 Wbrid Sport 
130 Worid View 
230 Moneyfine 


■ VOICE OF MUSK 

636 Momirn Concert 
935 Bade Cantata 
nol40,Wachetauf, 
njftuns de Stimme 
(AmeSng, Bakin, 


Mbfces/Engfish 
CQILeppanfoJ.CL 
Bach: HarpGdchord 
concerto no 7; 
Beefooran/liszf: 
Symphony no 6 
-Pastorale' iGodd); 
Sch<i)ert Symphony 
no9-GreaT 
(DresderVDavis) 

1230 Noon wfth 
Gideon Hod- fafnifar 
music and quiz 
14:06 Encore 

1530 Voice of Music 


23:30 South American 
Soccer 

■ EUROSPORT 

930 Goft Women’s 
EPGA 

1030 Motocross 


11:30 Fim ’97 (rpQ 

1230 Hard Tak (rpt) 
1330 Cities ol foe 
Futuefrpt) 

14:00 Newsdesk 
1530 The Money 
Programme 
16:15 Worid Business 
Report 

1630 Aaia-PacOc 
Newshour 
1730 Top Gear (rat) 
1830 Hard Talc wfo 
Tan Sebastian 
1930 The Ctoftes 

Show (ipo 
2030 The Wbrid 


1130 IndyCan PPG 
WOrid Senes, Brazfl 
13:00 Motors 

13^0Soaxr: 
European Cup 
Winners Cup Final 
15:30 MowitMn Bice: 
Worid Cup, Prague 
16C00 Tends: ATP 
Mercedes Soper 9, Italy 
2030 Motors 
Magazine 
20:30 Sumo 


21 36 Hard Tak (rpt) 
2230 Panorama 
2330 Tomorrow’s 
Wbrid 

0030 Newsdesk 
£10Newsn«ght 

■ Ct#l 

INTERNATIONAL 

Newsforoughoirt 
the day 

630 World Report 
7i30 Insight m) 
830MoneMne(ujQ 
930 Woritf Sport 


1630 Johann 
Friedrich Doles: 

Motet; Beethoven: 
Sonata no 9 in A for 
piano and violin op 47 
“Krautzer*; Brahms; 
Sonata for piano and 
oeio op 38; Poulenc: 
Songs to words of 
ITfo-century French 
poets; Brfttaa- Third 
suite tor celo solo op 
87 

1830 New CDs - 
DarM Barenboim and 
Radu Lupu. Works by 
Schubert Grand Duo 
sonata in C D812 for 
piano 4 hands; 6 
Variations on original 
foeme in A flat D813; 
test-n*mte acquisi- 
tions 

2035 Arnold 
Schoenberg-foe 
development of a 
composer the 


2130 Clouds. 
Celebrations and 
Sirens 

2330 The Art offoe 
Song 


QUICK CROSSWORD 


ACROSS 
1 Harder (6) 

4 Intended (5) 

8 Dark time of day 

(5) 

9 Brief (7) . 

10 Wise king (7) 

11 Entanglement y4) 

12 Join (3) 

14 Brisk pace (4) 

15 Certain (4) 

18 Consume (3) 

21 Spoken (4) 

23 Miser (7) 

. 25 Enormous (7) 

26 Bestow (5) 

27 Outfit (3^) 

28 Middle (6) 


DOWN 

1 End (6) 

2 Customary (7) 

3 Reckon (B) 

4 Repair (4) 
5Foire^ziC5) 

6 Score (6) 

7 Perfume (5) 

13 Adventure (8) 

16 Beaming (7) 

17 Poignant (6) 

19 Robber (5) 

20 Walk weaxify (6) 

22 Acknowledge (5) 

24 Cut (4) 


CtNB«WTHHXJE Trier Thtog You Do 5 
* Ste acm t 7 - The Hy v Deed FUngers 
8*5 >fceyURjo 10 GlG. GIL Jerusalem 
MaB (MBfoaf * 6788448 The 

Sahfo<Oante% Peate° RkflcuJe 5, 7: 15, 
9:45 - MchaakoSpace J am ^ H ere e 
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6792799 Credit Card n— erveUoru » 
6794477 RawMecherBUMng, 19 Haioman 
SU Tklpfat Metro 5. 730, fc45 . The 
Bngftsh Patient 3, 6.T5, 930 - Return of 
foe Jadi 430, 7i15 - Everyone Says I Lora 
Ybu 5. 730, S645 • Msnrirfs Room 5, 730, 
£45 • Jerry klnulre ft45 - Trie Devi’S 
Own 5. 730, 8:45-101 Dafmstians5.73Q, 
945 hfcVASSS^ET ZION G.G. GIL « 
5700868 Romeo aid •Wat^the Prisoner 
Offoe Mountans 5, 7:15, ft45 SMADAR 
« 5616168 Shine 5, 10- SecrtaS andUes 
7riS 

TEL AVIV 

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am, 3, 7715 • HuftwOsnd FMte 1, 5, 10 
GAT Everyone Sew I Love YOu 5. 730, 
ft45 GORDON Evte 530, 7i45 • Ctthen 
Kane 10 G.G. HOD 1-4 * 5226226 Hod 
Passage. 101 Dtzangofl SL BibIm of foe 
SensotacRidfoule 57730, 10 - Sows 
JanwAree Creatures 5, 730, 10 LEV 
The Bntish Patient 11 am, 2, 5, 630, 
930 ■ aito 11.16 am, 2, 4348. 10 • 
Secrete and Uw 11 am, 11^8, 430,7:15, 
10 • The Prisonar of foe Mountafos 11:15 
am, 630, 8:15 - Beautiful Thfop iris. 
350, 10G.G. PE’ERTtta Satai 5j 730,10 
. RjfcutepaOsnteb Peak. 5.730.10* 
MfchaM &730. 10 • teiace Jam 5, 730, 10 
RAVCHEN • 528^88 Dhsngotr Center 
Metro 230. 5, 73a 9AS • RStm of foe 
Jed 2:15. 4:45, 7:15. 9^6*101 Dsknadsns 
230,5,730,945 -The Devffs Own 230, 
5, 73a £M5 * Romeo end Juftet 230, 5, 
7115, 9:45 - Jgny Maguire 2. 430735, 
Sd 45 RAV-OR 1-5 « 5102674 Opera 
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PefleM ft. 9rt5 - The DevTs Own 4*5, 7, 
9rt5 RAV-iftOR 1-7 « 8416896 The 
BnRsh Patient 6. 9ri5 - 101 DWknattns 5. 

7 - Return of titaJarf 430, 7, 930 -Scream 

7, 930 • Jerry Meataa 4:15. 7. 930 - 
Marvlnte Room 4.-45, 7, 930 • empire 


Marvin's Room 4,-45, 7, 930 - Empire 
State Back 430 • Metro 43a 7, 930 • The 
Dentes Own 930 RAVOR 1-3 » 8346553 
Me*o 430, 7, 830 -Return of the Jed 4.-15, 
7 -Jsny Manure 930 -Msrvftfs Room 930 
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AFULA 

RAV CHEN « 6424047 The EMBSh 
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930 - Dented Peak 7.15, 930 • Mars 
Attacks! 7:15, 930 Trie We d d ta g Banquet 

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Ftarce Creature s -' Mkrhoo l 5, 730 10 - 
Secrets and Lies 4^5, 7^15, 10 RAV 
CHEN *6681120 The Enofah Patient 
6:15, ScT5 - Return of foe Jed 430 7:15, 
9*5 • Metro 5, 730,9*5 - Romeo and 
JuBet 5, 7:15. 9:45 • Jsny Maguire 430 - 
7rl5. 9:45 • The Dsvtes Own ^46 - 101 
Dafcnatians5,73fl 
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730 10 - Dante's Poo h .E mpire of foe 
Semes 5, 730, 10 • Fierce Creatine KL 
1230 a 10 - Space Jam 5. 730 RAV 
CHEN Itetro-SMia 5. 730 9*6 - Jerry 
Maguire 430 7i15, 9:45 - The Engtish 
Pattern &15,9n5 -The DevlTs Own 9-45 - 
101 Debnatians 0 730 
BAT YAM 

RAV CHEN Retie: 5, 730 9*5 - Mete) 5L 

730, 9*5 .-The saint 5, 730, 045 -The 
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Davflte Own 5:15. 7*Oiai5HOUDAY 
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Return of foe Jets 430 


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in brief 


Procedures allow cancer patient to lave kids 


A 24-year-old woman being treated for a cancerous brain tumor 
has been given a triple chance to be a mother after she recovers. 
Gynecologists at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in 
Petah Tikva carried out a series of three procedures to allow her 
have a baby. Her chemotherapy was postponed for a short time to 
allow her to ovulate and cany out in-vitro fertilization with her 
partner's sperm. The resulting embryos were frozen. In addition, 
they used the new technique of freezing sections of her ovary, 
which is being carried out in only a few medical centers around 
the world. To prevent further damage to her ovaries during anti- 
cancer therapy, her ovaries were pushed from the center of her 
lower abdomen to one side. She was the first cancer patient in 
Israel to undergo all three techniques. Judy Siegel 


Suspected pimps for 12-yearold out on bail 


Avraham Ya’acovov and Maxim Shakrov, who are suspected of 
raping and pimping for a 1 2 - year-old girl, were released from jail 
yesterday on NIS 40,000 bail each, NTS 10.000 of which was in 
cash. They were placed under house arrest and barred from leaving 
the country until the end of the legal proceedings against them. Tel 
Aviv District Court Judge Avraham Bizar rejected the prosecution's 
request to keep them in jail, saying that they do not pose a danger 
to the public and that they may not have known the girl’s age. " 
According to the charge sheet, the girl had ran away from home 
in March and Ya'acovov and Shakrov offered her a job and place 
io live. him 


Mil Cohen named TAU rector 


Prof. Nili Cohen. 49, was elected rec- 
tor of Tel Aviv University by the 
Faculty Senate yesterday. She had been 
serving as deputy rector for the past 
three years. Cohen is the first TAU 
graduate to be named rector. She 
received her bachelor’s, master’s, and 
doctorate degrees in law from the uni- 
versity. In 1 986. the justice minister 
appointed her to serve on the committee 
codifying civil law. Jerusalem Post Staff 



Nili Cohen 


Honorary doctorates tram Hebrew University 


World Jewish Congress President Edgar Bronfman and author 
Herman Wouk will be among the recipients of honorary doctorates 
during the meeting of the Hebrew University’s Board of 
Governors. The two will receive the awards at a ceremony at the 
university amphitheater on June I. 

Bronfman is being honored for “his important work on behalf of 
the Jewish people, and in appreciation of his friendship for and 
support of the Hebrew University." Wouk. author of The Caine 
Mutiny, Winds of War and War and Remembrance ; is being hon- 
ored for “his multifaceted contribution to American and Jewish 
culture, and in recognition of his warm friendship with the 
Hebrew University and the State of Israel." Jerusalem Post Staff 


Ministry sets school parties guidelines 

The Education Ministry has issued guidelines forbidding organiz- 
ers. directors, actors and other external professionals from organiz- 
ing school end-of-year parties. 

Principals were instructed to see to it that “parties and ceremonies 
in schools are carried out in a modest and frugal manner" and were 
told to avoid unnecessary spending. Aryeh Dean Cohen 


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Strikers blockade 


Meridor ’s office 


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Some 30 local authority heads 
prevented people from entering 
Finance Minister Dan Meridor's 
office for two hours yesterday 
afternoon, in a protest against his 
ignoring their demands for 
increased budgets. 

One of those turned away by the 
protesters was Industry and Trade 
Minister Natan Sharansky, who 
arrived for a meeting with 
Meridor but left after the local 
authority heads denied him enliy. 

Meridor and his senior staff 
were left angered by the incursion. 
"If they think this will make me 
compromise they are totally mis- 
taken." Meridor told The 
Jerusalem Post last night 


The Union of Local Authorities 
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effort to force a solution to the 
local authorities’ deficit problem. 
Yesterday, 252 of the 263 local 
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Henzliya, Ramat Gan and Bat 
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cease education services. 

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also take to the road in various 
localities, and other protest 
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dent of ibis country who will not 
feel this personally," the ULA 
leadership vowed. 

The decision to expand the 
strike followed a meeting between 
Meridor and Interior Minister Eli 
Suissa, at which it was decided to 
transfer NIS 200 million to the 
local authorities to help them 
cover their debts. 

But ULA leaders dismissed this 
as a “joke," noting that the accu- 
mulated debt of the local authori- 
ties now stands at NIS 4 billion 
and that dozens of local authori- 
ties have yet to pay their workers' 
April salaries. 

Judy Siegel adds 

The 700 doctors at the two 
Hadassah-Unrversity Hospitals will 
strike today, instituting a minimal 
Shabbal schedule. The intensified 
sanctions at the Ein Kenem and 
Mount Scopus hospitals were 
called as a “protest against manage- 
ment’s unilateral actions against the 
doctors and now managements 
threatens mass dismissals." 

Hadassah management has been 
demanding that the doctors take a 
fair share in its recovery program 
to make up the current deficit of 
NIS 1 87 million. 


victims 


By JUDY SIEGEL 


In yesterday’s Chance drawings, 
the lucky cards were the 10 of 
spades, 10 of hearts, king of dia- 
monds. and 8 of clubs; and the 
king of spades, queen of hearts, 
queen of diamonds, and 9 of clubs. 


On Independence Day. Bassal 
Fall ah. a Beduin boy from Arab 
al-Jib, a village near Nazareth, 
received a liver lobe from his 
mother, AroaL after he suffered 
severe complications due to 
hepatitis A He was the third Arab 
child to receive a liver lobe from a 
live donor. These and other chil- 
dren could have been spared the 
disease had they, received a vac- 
cine still considered too expensive 
to be included in the regular series 
of Health Ministry immunizations. 

Hepatitis A is endemic in IsraeL 
and most common among Arabs 
and haredi Jews. Both generally 
have large families, and the Arabs, 
in addition, are more likely to live in 
villages with undeveloped sewage 
systems and poor sanitary condi- 
tions. While haredim most often go 
abroad - with help from haredi 
relief organizations - to get a liver 
transplant. Arabs almost never have 
such a choice and it is up to a parent 
to give part of his or her liven 

Passive immunity against 
hepatitis A can be provided cheap- 
ly with a gamma globulin shot, but 
this offers protection for only 
seven weeks. Long-term active 
immunity is provided safely by a 
vaccine, but since it is produced 
by only one company and not yet 
genetically engineered, an adult 
dose of the more concentrated 
form costs NIS 215 for one shot 
(two are needed), while the less 
concentrated type goes for NIS 
143 per dose, according to 
Jerusalem pharmacist Avi Raz. 

It could take five years before 
die price of hepatitis A vaccine 
goes down to a level reasonable 
enough for the Health Ministry to 
include it in its immunization 
schedule for children. 

Raz notes that haredim are espe- 
cially susceptible to hepatitis A 
infection because of their living 
conditions, relatively poor hygiene 
in kindergartens, and reluctance to 
be immunized. 


Report: 
Freeze 
Swiss assests 


BY MARILYN HENRY 


NEW YORK - The US should 
freeze Swiss assets in the US if Bern 
fails to make “appropriate restitu- 
tion” of World War H-era Nazi gojfd. 
The New York Tones suggested yes- 
terday in an editorial tint called oo 
Switzerland and the US to make 
amends for war-time policies. 

“Switzerland’s collaboration 
with the Nazis was extensive and 
its moral obtuseness after the war 
quite remarkable," the Times said. 
“That Switzerland was not alone 
in its misjudgments does not 
excuse it from making appropriate 
restitution today." 

Last week. Undersecretary of 
Commerce Stuart Eizenstat released 
an American report that assailed die 
neutral nations for being greedy in 
relations with the Third Reich and the 
Allies for being Lax in pursuing repara- 
tions. The Eizenstat report, however, 
did not indicate what action the neutral 
states might pursue to make amends. 

In 1946 negotiations, the Allies 
reached an agreement with 
Switzerland to settle the Nazi gold 
question with a payment of SFr250 
million - some $58 million - 
although the Swiss National Bank 
had received some $400 million in 
Nazi loot. There have been calls for 
this agreement to be renegotiated. 

The Ei z ensta t report noted that the 
US administration was internally 
divided in its approach to recovering 
Nazi loot from the Swiss, and that 
there were schisms among the Allies. 

The Tunes said if Switzerland falls 
short in restitution, the Clinton 
admi n istration can freeze some of 
the $86 billion that Switzerland 
invests in the US. ' 


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Humor in Language Teaching 


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